The Lake That Exploded

Episodes

1. 01 Episode 1: The Night the Lake Exploded Free1:52 A silent, invisible cloud escapes Lake Nyos and leaves entire communities—and thousands of animals—dead.
2. 02 Episode 2: The Invisible Weapon Under the Water Locked1:32 Scientists descend into the chemistry of Nyos to explain how water can store enough carbon dioxide to become catastrophic.
3. 03 Episode 3: The Lake That Warned Nyos Locked2:06 Two years before Nyos, Lake Monoun released its own lethal gas burst—but its warning remained difficult to decipher.
4. 04 Episode 4: When the Air Turned Deadly Locked1:48 The story returns to August 1986, reconstructing the Nyos release from the human and animal evidence it left behind.
5. 05 Episode 5: The Burns That Might Not Be Burns Locked1:30 Doctors investigate whether the victims' lesions reveal acidic poison—or a hidden consequence of carbon dioxide-induced coma.
6. 06 Episode 6: The Report That Named the Killer Locked1:38 An official scientific team assembles the water, gas, medical, and geological evidence into a mechanism for the disaster.
7. 07 Episode 7: The Lake With Four Different Ages Locked1:49 Dating the Nyos maar becomes a scientific detective story with estimates separated by hundreds of thousands of years.
8. 08 Episode 8: The Dam Hiding a Second Disaster Locked1:55 Even after the gas catastrophe, researchers discover that the structure holding Lake Nyos above the valleys is itself a hazard.
9. 09 Episode 9: The Fountain Built to Disarm a Lake Locked1:44 Engineers attempt an extraordinary solution: piping deep water upward so the lake can release its carbon dioxide under control.
10. 10 Episode 10: What a Quiet Lake Can Hide Locked1:40 Nyos and Monoun become a global warning that serene water can conceal volcanic chemistry capable of mass asphyxiation.