Episode 76 | A Hitherto Disaster
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Episode 76 | A Hitherto Disaster
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What do you get when you mix a quiet African lake, a ridiculous amount of carbon dioxide, and absolutely zero warning? This week, we dive deep (not literally) into the bizarre and terrifying Lake Nyos disaster of 1986, when Mother Nature let out a massive, silent-but-deadly gas cloud that wiped out an entire village.
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Sources for this episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/defusing-africas-killer-lakes-88765263/
https://www.britannica.com/event/Lake-Nyos-disaster
https://web.archive.org/web/20090227160526/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C962228-1%2C00.html
https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/lake-nyos.htm