They warn of a potentially catastrophic scenario – a “limnic eruption” that could smother the area with suffocating carbon dioxide. They say due to the volcano’s proximity to Congo’s ...

Probing the Mystery of Limnic Eruptions that Release Clouds of CO 2 Cameroon has many volcanos, some of them with lakes in their craters. In the 1980s, limnic eruptions occurred at two crater lakes, ...

No warning, no fire, no explosion—just silence, then death. In 1986, Lake Nyos released a deadly cloud that wiped out entire villages in minutes.

We anticipate that this will allow us to remove CO 2 efficiently. It was clear that CO 2 was the cause of limnic eruptions, but we didn't understand the mechanism that brought it about. We conducted ...