Exploding killer lakes may sound like the subject of a Stephen King nove...  ...path by sucking the oxygen out of the air.In 1986 Lake Nyos near the border of Nigeria unleashed a deadly CO2...  ...least 3000 head of cattle.But how do these killer lakes create a cloud of pure CO2...

The following is reprinted from Uncle John&r...  ...um, a village in Cameroon, towards the village of Nyos . On the way he noticed an antelope lying dead nex...  ...cle and ran all the way back to Wum.SOMETHING BIG Nyos village, where nearly 2,000 people were killed (I...  ...irst survivors of whatever it was th...