Sep 3, 2024 06:19 PM
https://www.sciencealert.com/gateway-to-...ng-rapidly
INTRO: A giant hole in the earth is breaking open the land in Siberia, and photos from space show it's growing rapidly. It's the shape of a stingray, a horseshoe crab, or a giant tadpole. It started as a sliver, barely visible in declassified satellite imagery from the 1960s.
Now it's a chasm with steep cliffs, clearly visible from space. The hole tripled in size between 1991 and 2018, according to the US Geological Survey.
The Batagay crater, sometimes referred to as Batagaika or as the "gateway to hell," is representative of a much larger, often invisible problem that affects the entire planet.
The Arctic is heating up faster than the rest of Earth, and that's quickly thawing the permafrost, which is a thick layer of soil that's permanently frozen – at least, it used to be.
The Batagay crater isn't actually a crater at all. It's the world's largest "retrogressive thaw slump," which is a pit that forms when permafrost thaw causes the ground to cave in, creating a landslide as the earth at its edges slumps into the pit... (MORE - details)
The Batagaika Crater : A warning sign for the Earth ... https://youtu.be/QEu2dyrdoEc
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/QEu2dyrdoEc
INTRO: A giant hole in the earth is breaking open the land in Siberia, and photos from space show it's growing rapidly. It's the shape of a stingray, a horseshoe crab, or a giant tadpole. It started as a sliver, barely visible in declassified satellite imagery from the 1960s.
Now it's a chasm with steep cliffs, clearly visible from space. The hole tripled in size between 1991 and 2018, according to the US Geological Survey.
The Batagay crater, sometimes referred to as Batagaika or as the "gateway to hell," is representative of a much larger, often invisible problem that affects the entire planet.
The Arctic is heating up faster than the rest of Earth, and that's quickly thawing the permafrost, which is a thick layer of soil that's permanently frozen – at least, it used to be.
The Batagay crater isn't actually a crater at all. It's the world's largest "retrogressive thaw slump," which is a pit that forms when permafrost thaw causes the ground to cave in, creating a landslide as the earth at its edges slumps into the pit... (MORE - details)
The Batagaika Crater : A warning sign for the Earth ... https://youtu.be/QEu2dyrdoEc