Parts of Siberia's landscape is scarred with massive craters that keep turning up. The cause, according to a recent study, ...

"Either a chemical reaction occurs, resulting in an explosion ... to the formation of craters in Siberia. Underneath cryopegs lies a layer of crystallized methane hydrates (methane clathrate ...

The permafrost in northwestern Siberia is unusual for its very ... they also contribute to it. Each explosion belches out methane that was previously locked away, deep in the earth, a gas up ...

resulting in an explosion of methane gas. These explosions are thought to be responsible for the sudden appearance of monstrous holes in the terrain. And if these researchers are correct, Siberia ...

That's the puzzle scientists have been wrestling with since 2014, when the first 100-foot-wide crater burst through soil that ...

According to scientists, the mere thawing of permafrost is insufficient to cause an explosion, although this process is ...

It's been fairly clear from the beginning that the craters are caused by some type of explosion deep underground ... in Canada and a 46,000 year-old worm in Siberia. It's not just ancient squirrels ...

Scientists are putting forward a new explanation for the giant exploding craters that seem to be randomly appearing in the Siberian permafrost. These craters, first spotted in 2012, have been ...

That pressure cracks the soil leading to the surface, which triggers a drastic reverse in pressure. And that pressure change is what damages the methane hydrates, triggering an explosion. Siberia will ...