It has become a popular tourist spot in Turkmenistan. The crater, known informally to people and tourists as the "Door to Hell," has officially been dubbed the "Shining of Karakum" since 2018.

The Gate to Hell has been open since the 1980s – and it cannot be closed. Deep in the arid desert of Turkmenistan, a huge crater burns with the wrath of a thousand flames, night and day ...

Variously and evocatively known as the Crater of Fire or the Gate to Hell, the Darvaza crater is a football pitch-sized natural gas crater that’s been on fire continuously for more than 40 years.

There, a fire pit known as the Darvaza Crater earned the name “Gates of Hell”—or “Door to Hell”—because it burns bright day ...

The Batagay Crater in Siberia is a retrogressive thaw slump that's getting bigger as the area's permafrost melts. The rapidly warming Arctic is causing the slump to grow by millions of cubic metres a ...

During WWII, a three-man commando team places its trust in the hands of a band of Filipino resistors, as they try to knock out a Japenese communication center.

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Crater Lake's famously pure water and a newt that calls the lake home are under threat from the explosion of an invasive crayfish, leading to potential action under the Endangered Species Act, the ...