The Batagaika crater is a thermokarst depression in the East Siberian taiga, in the Sakha Republic in Russia. The crater began to form after a forest was cleared in preparation for a road that was to ...

BATAGAI, Russia (Reuters) - Stunning drone footage has revealed details of the Batagaika crater, a one kilometre long gash in Russia's Far East that forms the world's biggest permafrost crater. In the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: This is the world's biggest permafrost crater... a gash in the earth of Russia's Far East - stretching two-thirds of a mile ...

Siberia's "gateway to the underworld" is already massive. But, new research shows that it continues to grow, with the Batagaika Crater growing by 35 million cubic feet (1 million cubic meters) every ...

Multisensory satellite observations of the expansion of the Batagaika crater and succession of vegetation in its interior from 1991 to 2018. Landsat data were downloaded from the USGS Earth Explorer. ...

A crater in Siberia is expanding faster than anticipated due to climate change, scientists have discovered, saying it now poses problems for the surrounding habitat. The Batagaika slump, known as the ...

A baby mammoth that lay almost perfectly preserved for 50,000 years in the now-melting permafrost of eastern Siberia has been unveiled by a team of scientists. The mammoth was a “unique research find” ...

A massive hole in Siberia has grown from a small gully into a mile-long scar as thawing permafrost collapses into mud and gets washed away. The Batagaika crater is retreating fast, exposing frozen ...

A massive Siberian depression known as the Batagaika crater has grown into a mile-long scar, expanding almost threefold between 1991 and 2018. The so-called crater is actually a giant thaw slump, ...

Officially, this place is called the Batagajka crater and is located approximately 660 km from Yakutsk, but the locals call it the gate to hell. It has just turned out that the gate is growing ...

Researchers in Russia on Monday unveiled the remarkably well-preserved remains of a 50,000-year-old female baby mammoth found in thawing permafrost in the Yakutia region of Siberia. The remains of the ...