Today’s podcast touches on a more obscure natural phenomenon that occurred in Cameroon back in 1986.  The limnic eruption of Lake Nyos, when submerged carbon dioxide gas was suddenly forced to the surface, is something that doesn’t happen all that often, but when it does, the results are deadly.

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Sources for the podcasts are as follows:

• Wikipedia.org: Limnic Eruption and Lake Nyos
• Atlas Obscura: Lake Nyos
• Design4Disaster.org: Limnic Eruption
• Geology department of University of Arizona: The Lake Nyos Disaster
• The Guardian: Gas Thread Grows from Cameroon’s Lethal Lakes