Turkmenistan's Darvaza gas crater, dubbed the 'Gates of Hell', burns continuously. This fiery pit originated from a 1971 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The site in Turkmenistan burns through millions of cubic meters of natural gas each year. The exact cause behind the Darvaza Gas ...

The Gate to Hell has been open since the 1980s – but it might finally be running out of gas. Deep in the arid desert of Turkmenistan, a huge crater has been burning with the wrath of a thousand flames ...

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Turkmenistan's Darvaza Gas Crater, famously known as the "Door to Hell," has been burning for 54 years. This fiery spectacle, born from a 1971 Soviet drilling mishap, may soon extinguish naturally.

Rarely does an industrial accident develop into a major tourist attraction. But when a Soviet exploratory team drilled for natural gas in Turkmenistan more than 50 years ago, they are said to have set ...