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Massive ‘Gateway to the Underworld’ in Siberia Keeps Growing—Uncovering 650,000-Year-Old Secrets Beneath the Ice!
The Batagay megaslump, also known as the “gateway to the underworld,” continues to expand in Siberia’s permafrost and is ...
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A giant hole in Siberia is visible from space and growing rapidly. It might reveal hints about our planet's future.
But the size of the Batagay "crater" has earned it the title of megaslump. It's named for the nearby town of Batagay. "Permafrost is not the most, let's say, photogenic of subjects," Roger ...
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Siberia's enormous hole in the ground is getting bigger
A large crater in Siberia is getting bigger due to the way permafrost interacts with the environment. It is helping scientists understand more about past climates and how the permafrost is ...
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Arctic permafrost is thawing fast. That affects us all.
As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or lakes. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sergey Zimov, right ...
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Pipeline Designs to Protect Permafrost
The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we looked at each other in sort of a manner of disbelief." — Art Lachenbruch, U.S. Geological Survey Art Lachenbruch was a ...