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Siberia's rapidly expanding Batagaika Crater is actively burping tens of thousands of years of trapped methane gas into the atmosphere as prehistoric frozen animal carcasses…

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The 'Doorway to the Underworld' is gaping open in Siberia, and it smells entirely like prehistoric farts. As permafrost dramatically collapses, ancient carcasses thaw and rot, burping out thousands of years of trapped methane. It’s the ultimate vicious cycle: Earth warms up, ice melts, dead stuff rots, Earth warms up even faster.

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