Welcome to hell. Courtesy of #HumanGreed and #hubris

"Hoping to burn off the #methane gas that floated up from the newly formed crater, the Soviets lit it on fire [in the 1980s]. They thought it would burn off the methane in a day or two. Five decades later, the crater's still burning.

"The Darvaza gas crater (Turkmen: Garagum ýalkymy), also known as the Door to Hell or Gates of Hell, or, officially, the Shining of Karakum, is a burning natural gas field collapsed into a cavern near #Darvaza, #Turkmenistan. The floor and especially rim of the crater is illumined by hundreds of natural gas fires."

#Methane #MethaneLeaks #OilAndGas #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #GreenhouseGas