Up close, it resembles a wound in the earth. At night, a wide pit glows orange, its rim blackened and flames flickering from ...

In 2024, Azerbaijan’s state oil company launched a push to almost completely cancel out methane emissions within a decade.

This video explores one of the strangest places on Earth: Turkmenistan, a secretive desert dictatorship hiding the Darvaza ...

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, May 23. Turkmenistan plans to expand cooperation with foreign partners in offshore oil and gas projects in the country’s sector of the Caspian Sea, Trend reports via the press ...

A woman from Pennsylvania found a 3.09-carat white diamond at a state park in Arkansas. Keshia Smith found the diamond during a visit to Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Pike County, ...

Turkmenistan, long considered one of the world’s most isolated nations, is cautiously opening to tourism through new e-visa reforms and global marketing campaigns. From the flaming Darvaza Gas Crater ...

Soon before she arrived in Turkmenistan in early 2026, Canadian traveler Elyse Williams received a warning from her tour company not to venture far from her hotel in the authoritarian country and to ...

A move by the Trump administration to suspend the federal gasoline tax would offer only modest relief to U.S. drivers socked by soaring fuel costs, according to tax and energy experts. Americans face ...

Turkmenistan’s Darvaza gas crater, better known as the “Portal to Hell,” has been burning in the Karakum Desert for more than 50 years. The exact origin remains unclear, but the leading theory is that ...