There are a number of ways to snuff out Turkmenistan's multidecade natural gas hellhole, from a pile of dirt to bombs. Maybe even a nuclear one. Reading time 7 minutes OK, who put “Turkmenistan is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Turkmenistan's "Gateway to Hell" is a fiery pit that has burned continuously since 1971. After over half a century, the inferno ...

Beneath the western outskirts of Naples, one of Europe’s most complex volcanic systems is entering a phase of renewed unrest. Campi Flegrei, a vast caldera rather than a single volcanic cone, has ...

Deep in the Siberian tundra, a vast scar in the landscape is expanding year by year — and the reason behind it has little to do with myth. Known locally as the “Gateway to Hell,” the Batagay megaslump ...

During an international conference on hydrocarbon resources in Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat earlier this month, Irina Luryeva, head of the scientific research institute at the state-owned energy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A huge thermokarst crater showing the damage to the permafrost and our climate, Batagay, Russia. (Padi Prints / Troy TV Stock / ...

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 ...

The ‘Gateway to Hell’ has long been a tourist attraction – Copyright AFP/File IGOR SASIN Turkmenistan said Thursday it had significantly reduced a gas fire that ...

Turkmenistan said Thursday it had significantly reduced a gas fire that has been raging for half a century at a site dubbed the "Gateway to Hell" . The fire has been burning in the Karakum desert ...

ASHGABAT — From a gas crater dubbed the “Gateway to Hell” to the shimmering marble buildings of its capital, Turkmenistan is ...