Imagine a gash in the Earth so large you could fit several football stadiums inside it. That's the Batagaika crater for you. This massive thermokarst depression – a fancy term for a giant ...

STORY: This is the world's biggest permafrost crater... a gash in the earth of Russia's Far East - stretching two-thirds of a mile. And as the planet warms up -- the Batagaika crater's permafrost is ...

BATAGAI, Russia (Reuters) - Stunning drone footage has revealed details of the Batagaika crater, a one kilometre long gash in Russia's Far East that forms the world's biggest permafrost crater. In the ...

Researchers in Siberia are trying to learn more about a baby mammoth whose nearly intact remains were found in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years. According to Reuters, the animal was ...

Newly released drone footage confirms the massive permafrost crater in Siberia -the “gateway to the underworld” – is growing in size. Multisensory satellite observations of the expansion of the ...

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 ...

Siberia's "gateway to the underworld" is already massive. But, new research shows that it continues to grow, with the Batagaika Crater growing by 35 million cubic feet (1 million cubic meters) every ...

A 50,000-year-old baby mammoth pulled from melting permafrost could be the best-preserved specimen ever found. Weighting more than 100kg, standing 120cm tall and estimated to have been one year old, ...