It has been called everything from the “gateway to the underworld” to a “tadpole-shaped gash” – and it’s eating into the surrounding landscape “like a living thing”.
The huge crater in Siberia is an “immense fracture” in the depths of the Russian Far East that “splintered open” just a few decades ago, said IFL Science. Now, “with climate change continuing to cook up this part of the world, the literal scar on the planet is continuing to grow”.
The ‘gateways to the underworld’
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