A sudden change on 29 August 2022 in the color and smell of Lake Kuk, in north-west Cameroon, has caused anxiety and panic among the local residents. Fears are driven by an incident that happened 36 ...

Deep in the volcanic highlands of northwestern Cameroon, there is an unassuming body of water that once unleashed one of the most unusual and deadly natural disasters in modern history. Lake Nyos, a ...

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if you were trapped in the toxic depths and lethal gases of the ...

Fishing on an explosive lake sounds dangerous. I’m in Goma, in the Democractic Republic of Congo, where I spent yesterday with fishermen on Lake Kivu’s Himbi Beach. The goal: to hunt petite-sized ...