When This Lake 'Burps,' Better Watch Out!
Nearly twenty years ago, two lakes in Cameroon, a country in Africa, 'burped,' killing hundreds of people. What makes a lake burp? Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun are unusual lakes. They each formed in the crater of a volcano that is dormant but not extinct. Under…
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