Parts of Siberia's landscape are a ticking time bomb. Giant craters started mysteriously appearing 10 years ago. A team of scientists think they finally know why. Tucked away in the frigid northern ...

Imagine a gash in the Earth so large you could fit several football stadiums inside it. That's the Batagaika crater for you. This massive thermokarst depression – a fancy term for a giant ...

YAMAL PENINSULA, Russia — A Russian TV crew flying over the Siberian tundra this summer spotted a massive crater 30 meters (100 feet) deep and 20 meters wide — striking in its size, symmetry and the ...

If you need one more reason to worry about warming global temperatures, you can add the ground spontaneously blowing up to the list. In 2014, a bizarre crater was found in Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula.

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of giant exploding craters spotted in western Siberia, known to blast soil and ice hundreds of feet into the air. These craters, known as giant gas ...

If an explosion of gas opens a great cavity in Siberia's permafrost, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Well, the methane gases it releases certainly send ripples around the world, ...

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