For years, as the climate warms, Siberia's permafrost has been showing signs of collapse, with sinkholes appearing out of nowhere and bubbles of gas erupting under people's feet.
The land first started sinking in the '60s after the surrounding forest was cleared and the permafrost began to thaw.
Now the crater continues to grow as the material at the bottom melts and more of the underlying permafrost is exposed to the air. "The crater will likely eat through the entire hillslope before it slows down," geographer Mary Edwards from the University of Southampton"Every year as soon as temperatures go above freezing, it's going to start happening again. Once you've exposed something like this, it's very hard to stop it."
The instability of the region isn't just dangerous for locals. There are also concerns that as the hole gets deeper and larger, it will exposeafter being frozen for eons in Siberia.
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