Global warming opens the "door to hell" in Siberia

Siberia

Image - Alexander Gabyshev

As if it were an apocalyptic movie, the call has been opened in Siberia »door to hell'', a hole that is more than one hundred meters deep and one kilometer long. It is located near the city of Batagai, where surely no one wants to approach.

Little by little it is spreading more. And all thanks to global warming.

Although global warming affects the entire planet, in cold regions it is being noticed more, and here, in this region belonging to Russia, rising temperatures are causing permafrost, which is the layer of soil that is (or should be) always frozen, to melt. Thus, the ground collapses, exposing remnants of a remote past.

In fact, although this is one more example that the climate around the planet is changing a lot and rapidly, it is also true that it can help us understand what happened thousands of years ago, when mammoths still existed. So much so that a group of paleontologists take advantage of the fact that this area has come to light to explore, and to date they have found remains, not only of a mammoth, but even horses and a bison. Remains dating from neither more nor less than 4.400 years.

Batagaika

Image - Alexander Gabyshev

Are there more holes? According to an expert statement in the newspaper Siberian Timesyes. Total, there are two also located in the north of Russia. They are smaller, and are several hundred kilometers apart. But more could appear in areas near the Arctic Circle.

And to you, what did you think of this discovery? It's surprising, right? Global warming is a very serious problem that we must solve, taking the necessary measures to avoid its consequences.


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  1.   ines zamora f. said

    —- the light of the sun at noon has been very close to these places in this month of June… .The approach was greater in 2002 to 2006… —CR