Cameroon’s Deadly Lake Bomb Has Been Defused

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Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/SCISHOW and use code SCISHOW to protect your privacy! 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 cloud of CO2 gas, killing roughly 1800 people. But over the decades, scientists and engineers have worked out a solution to prevent something similar from happening again. Hosted by: Ceri Riley (she/her) ---------- Support us for $8/month on Patreon and keep SciShow going! https://www.patreon.com/scishow Or support us directly: https://complexly.com/support Join our SciShow email list to get the latest news and highlights: https://mailchi.mp/scishow/email ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Shaji John, Timos Gies, Jon Coffman, Anita, Anne Herrington, Ashley Moquin, yeyette, David Johnston, Cye Stoner, Jp Lynch, Bethany Matthews, Chris Curry, J.V. Rosenbalm, Blood Doctor Kelly, Toyas Dhake, Reed Spilmann, Eric Jensen, Garrett Galloway, Lyndsay Brown, Jeremy Mattern, Chris Mackey, Matt Curls, Friso, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, Piya Shedden, Kevin Knupp, Joseph Ruf, Jacob Puthoff, Kevin Bealer, Steve Gums, Alex Hackman ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/scishow.bsky.social #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRN3kbqI7BvdtzZBHWGU1DOX7cWeB-9e4StdC-WYxzjC1nftohvd7NY_bjweSWWv872KDH7S-_uVcKD/pub