From buoyant tourist playgrounds to pools so caustic they can strip flesh, the world’s saltiest lakes form a spectrum that runs from mildly briny to genuinely lethal. Ranked by salinity and toxicity, ...

Deep in the volcanic highlands of northwestern Cameroon lies Lake Nyos, a quiet crater lake surrounded by hills and small villages. At first glance, it looks peaceful and ordinary. But scientists ...

(via SciShow) In 1986, the residents of a Cameroonian village called Nyos experienced a natural disaster that had only happened one other time in recorded history. Their local lake expelled a gigantic ...