The burning gas crater has been on fire for the past several decades, following an incident with a Soviet drilling operation in the early 1970s. Now, the government appears to be looking for ways ...

Located in Turkmenistan’s Karakum desert, the Darvaza crater is a massive man-made sinkhole that has been burning methane gas for decades. It has been said that it was intentionally set alight ...

salt and gas igniting an underground explosion Recent expedition revealed that the crater has an icy lake at its bottom, and water is cascading down its walls 'The crater has more of an oval than ...

ASHGABAT, June 19. /TASS/. Specialists from the Turkmengas holding have drafted a plan to extinguish the Darvaza gas crater in the Karakum Desert, which has been on fire for more than fifty years ...