In Russia, the "gate in hell" opened: what looks like a crater

Crater Batpayka began to form after the trees were cut down massively. It is now rapidly expanding every year and can start destroying homes. In Russia, in the Far East, the largest permafrost crater in the world began to melt. Reuters writes about it. The crater is called Batpayka. It is a depression, which is a constantly growing abyss in an eternal permafrost 1 km long and up to 100 m deep. The locals call the crater simply: "collapse" or "gate to hell.

" It began to form after trees were massively cut down in this region in the 1960s. A decades later, Batpayka was already a deep ravine. And then he began to melt under the influence of the sun and expand very quickly. According to scientists, this phenomenon is due to the fact that Russia is heated at least 2. 5 times faster than the rest of the world, melting a long frozen tundra, covering about 65% of the country's territory, and releasing greenhouse gases stored in the thaw.

And such mega -provisions in the territory of the country will become more and more until eternal permafrost disappears. Currently, Batpayka and similar failures are threatened with dozens of settlements located within their action. The northern and northeast of the Russian Federation suffers the most. There, melting, breaks the asphalt cracks, destroys apartment and private homes and undermines pipelines. And annual forest fires only intensify environmental disasters.

We will remind, in March 2022, scientists came to the conclusion that the melting of eternal permafrost creates giant craters on the Arctic Sea Day. The initial causes of new formations at the days of the Arctic Ocean lie in the deep past, but new data show that modern climate change also contributes to this. And in November 2022, the media wrote that the ancient virus, hidden under the ice of Siberia, came to life in 48 500 years.