Huge Methane Craters in Thawing Siberia

Aerial view of a water-filled methane explosion crater in Siberian tundra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2pD8WSih5U

In Siberia’s thawing permafrost, methane and other gases can accumulate under frozen ground until pressure blows out a crater that later floods with meltwater.

Aerial surveys of Yamal and nearby tundra document these sudden gas-emission craters as a visible signature of warming-driven permafrost change.

Sunday February 28th 2021