"Door to Hell" starting to close after 54 years

There are no written Soviet records, no logs, no official drilling reports, and no confirmation that they'd lit it intentionally – but there's no disputing a ~100-foot (~30-m) deep, 226-foot (69-m) wide pit of relentless fiery fury that's been burning for around 50 years in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan.

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Category: Environment, Science

Tags: Fire, Gas, Climate Crisis, Bacteria


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