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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

In recent years, Siberia’s giant exploding craters have left scientists baffled. First spotted in 2012 on the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas, these massive, gas-emission craters have become a symbol of ...

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.

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