{"id":68638,"date":"2024-06-13T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68638"},"modified":"2024-06-13T20:13:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T01:13:09","slug":"gateway-to-hell-in-siberia-rapidly-expanding-experts-warn-as-landmark-can-be-seen-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68638","title":{"rendered":"‘Gateway to hell’ in Siberia ‘rapidly expanding’, experts warn as landmark can be seen from space"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Gateway to hell’ in Siberia ‘rapidly expanding’, experts warn as landmark can be seen from space<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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A giant crater in Siberia which can be seen from space is \u201crapidly expanding\u201d due to climate change<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The crater’s ever-increasing size will pose problems for the surrounding habitat, scientists say<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The giant \u201cGateway to Hell\u201d crater in Siberia which can be seen from space is \u201crapidly expanding\u201d due to climate change.<\/p>\n

Scientists say that the 200-acre wide, nearly 300-foot-deep Batagaika crater’s increasing size is posing problems for the surrounding habitat.<\/p>\n

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In a recent study, it was reported that the ginormous crater has grown by 35 million cubic feet (around one million cubic meters every year).<\/p>\n

It was first formed in the 1960s, when melting \u201cpermafrost\u201d soil within the Siberian tundra began to release tons of previously frozen methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the planet\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The crater was first detected on images taken in 1991 and has been growing in size ever since, as global warming causes permafrost to melt.<\/p>\n

Glaciologist Alexander Kizyakov, the study’s lead author, said that it \u201cdemonstrates how quickly permafrost degradation occurs\u201d.<\/p>\n

The research, published in Geomorphology, discovered that the rate of methane and other carbon gasses released as the crater grows has reached 5,000 tons per year.<\/p>\n

Kizyakov said that soon enough, the \u201cGateway to Hell\u201d will leak all of its remaining greenhouses gases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A recent computer-generated image shows its current size<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said that there is little room for it to grow deeper as the permafrost melt has almost reached the bedrock at the bottom.<\/p>\n

This will likely cause problems for the nearby Batagay River, as it will increase erosion on the riverbank.<\/p>\n

However, Kizyakov, who teaches at Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia, said that the melt could continue but sideways.<\/p>\n

\u201cExpansion along the margins and upslope is expected,\u201d Kizyakov told Atlas Obscura.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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‘Gateway to hell’ in Siberia ‘rapidly expanding’, experts warn as landmark can be seen from space A giant crater in Siberia which can be seen from space is \u201crapidly expanding\u201d due to climate change \u00a0Reuters The crater’s ever-increasing size will pose problems for the surrounding habitat, scientists say The giant \u201cGateway to Hell\u201d crater in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34714,34712,34713,17384],"class_list":["post-68638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-crater","tag-gbnews","tag-holly-bishop","tag-siberia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68639,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68638\/revisions\/68639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}