Invisible Cloud

On August 21, 1986, the farmers around Lake Nyos in Cameroon went to sleep in a silent valley. By morning, every living thing-1,746 people, 3,500 livestock, even the flies-was dead. There was no fire, no flood, and no violence. The killer was the lake itself. This book investigates the terrifying phenomenon of a limnic eruption, where a lake "e;burps"e; a massive cloud of carbon dioxide, displac...