A monstrous 1913 storm ripped across the Great Lakes and became one of the deadliest disasters in their history. Nineteen ships were destroyed, 52 more were damaged and over 250 people lost their ...

The night of August 21, 1986 began like any other in the farming villages surrounding Lake Nyos in northwest Cameroon. Families had finished their dinners, livestock had been penned, and the rhythms ...