The 1986 Lake Nyos Disaster occurred when volcanic carbon dioxide (CO2) gas erupted from beneath an African lake in Cameroon, bubbling to the surface and forming a deadly cloud. There was no huge eruption, no great boom or blast to warn people. What resulted however was like a scene from a horror movie. The deadlyContinue reading “The Ignored and Forgotten Lake Nyos Disaster”
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Podcast: The 1918 Spanish Flu Beats all Pandemics Since the Black Plague
Before COVID, before Ebola, before SARS, the 1918 Flu Pandemic killed more humans than all of World War I combined, over 50 million people worldwide! In just over a year, the so-called ‘Spanish Flu’ would infect a fifth of the world’s population. It remains to this day THE most devastating pandemic in recorded history. PreferContinue reading “Podcast: The 1918 Spanish Flu Beats all Pandemics Since the Black Plague”