The Gates of Hell exist, and they are in Siberia. And they continue to grow, as scientists tell us, who are particularly worried.
The Gates of Hell are growing every year
As long as you are interested in current events Whether you are a scientist or a reader of our articles, you have probably already heard of the Gates of Hell. It is a gigantic pit with the surprising shape of a manta ray, located in Siberia, near the Russian city of Batagay.This is why it is also called Batagay Crater, to distinguish it from another “Gate of Hell” located in Turkmenistan, near the village of Darvaza. In the case of this second Gate of Hell, it is a gigantic gas reserve that ignited after Soviet petrochemical scientists set it on fire in 1971.
While the creation of a gigantic pit in the shape of an animal may appear to be a simple geological anomaly, the Siberian Gates of Hell is much more worrying than it seems. Indeed,The scientific community is very interested in this pit, which continues to expand at a rate of one million cubic meters per year. This increase in the Gates of Hell is very evident in these two images released by the US Geological Survey, taken in 1991 and 2024 respectively.
The reasons for the scientists' concern lie in the explanation of the enlargement of this pit. Indeed, the land would collapse due to the thawing of the permafrost, also known as permafrost. This constantly frozen ground must remain so; in the event of thawing, the many animals and plants trapped under the ground begin to decompose, releasing methane and CO2, two gases responsible for global warming. It's the snake biting its own tail: global warming is thawing the permafrost, which is collapsing and revealing corpses that are starting to decompose and causing global warming to increase. According to a report published in ScienceAlert, the Gates of Hell releases 5,000 tons of CO2 per year, equivalent to the annual carbon consumption of 2,000 American homes. And that figure is only increasing every year.