Chemists Finally Unravel the Mystery of Siberia’s Explosive Craters

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Image of a Siberian crater

A giant hole in Siberia is visible from space and growing rapidly. It might reveal hints about our planet's future.

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google earth image of a giant brown textured squiggly crater in the shape of a horseshoe crab in the middle of a green forested landscape
The Batagay crater, as seen on Google Earth in satellite data from May.

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A mummified 44,000-year-old wolf is so perfectly preserved its stomach could contain remnants of its last meal

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mummified wolf on a white table surrounded by people in protective white coveralls and masks and gloves
Locals discovered this mummified wolf in the thawing permafrost in Siberia.

North-Eastern Federal University

The mystery of Siberia's strange exploding craters may have finally been solved

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FILE PHOTO: A member of an expedition group stands on the edge of a newly formed crater on the Yamal Peninsula, northern Siberia November 9, 2014 REUTERS/Vladimir Pushkarev/Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration
A member of an expedition group stands on the edge of a newly formed crater on the Yamal Peninsula, northern Siberia

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2 Russian airlines want to keep flying Soviet-era planes, but some of them are so old they're set to be phased out this year

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A Polar Airlines' Antonov An-24 passenger aircraft is serviced at an airport in Yakutsk, Russia.
A Polar Airlines' Antonov An-24 passenger aircraft is serviced at an airport in Yakutsk, Russia.

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An 8,000-year-old fort defies expectations, showing that Stone Age societies built protective structures far earlier than we thought

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Circular depressions indicate the presence of an 8,000-year-old fortified settlement near the Amnya River in western Siberia
The fortified settlement was close to the Amnya River, which likely provided ample fishing for the inhabitants.

Nikita Golovanov

A Russian airline is planning to fly an Airbus A320 out of a wheat field where it made an emergency landing last month

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An Airbus A320 of Russia's Ural Airlines passenger plane, which made an emergency landing in a field while flying from Sochi to Omsk, is seen near the settlement of Kamenka in the Novosibirsk region, Russia, September 12, 2023
The Ural Airlines plane suffered a hydraulics failure in September.

REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko

A Kremlin propagandist faced backlash from Siberian officials after saying Russia should detonate a nuke in its own territory

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Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan.

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A regiment of drafted Russian soldiers who made video plea to Putin to stop them being 'slaughtered' are now mostly dead, report says

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Russian tank
This photograph taken on September 11, 2022, shows a Ukranian soldier standing atop an abandoned Russian tank near a village on the outskirts of Izyum, Kharkiv Region, eastern Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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