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Nyos (village)

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Nexor's April 2026 dispatch identifies Nyos as a village situated on the lower slopes near the shore of Lake Nyos in Cameroon. According to the broadcast, nearly all of the settlement's roughly 1,000 residents perished in the 1986 eruption, making it among the most devastated communities in the event that the dispatch records as killing 1,746 people in total.

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How Lake Nyos Killed 1,746 People in One Breath — and Why Lake Kivu Could Do It at 250 Times the Scale
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2026-04-17

How Lake Nyos Killed 1,746 People in One Breath — and Why Lake Kivu Could Do It at 250 Times the Scale

On the night of August 21, 1986, Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon released an estimated 1.2 cubic kilometers of dissolved carbon dioxide in approximately 20 seconds, suffocating 1,746 people in the surrounding villages. The phenomenon — a limnic eruption — was unknown to science until 1984. A degassing solution existed within years, but took 15 years to fund. Lake Kivu, 55 miles long and holding 250 times the CO2 of Nyos, remains only partially addressed.

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