The road into the desert north of Balkanabat was paved, perhaps, with good intentions, but little else. For much of the way, ...

The Darvaza gas crater, dubbed the Door to Hell, is finally burning out after 54 years as nearby wells cut off its methane supply.

There are no written Soviet records, no logs, no official drilling reports, and no confirmation that they'd lit it ...

The “Gates of Hell” have been furiously burning away in Turkmenistan for decades, but scientists now have reason to believe ...

Turkmenistan's government said that they have been able to ‘significantly reduce’ the giant gas field fire at the Darvaza Gas Crater in the Karakum desert The ‘Gateway to Hell’, an ...

A burning pit has been on fire for four decades in central Asia, baffling scientists as the almost 200-foot-wide crater ...

The exact cause behind the Darvaza Gas Crater—also known as the Shining of Karakum—remains a mystery, but sinkhole’s broader origins likely trace back to 1971. Around that time, Soviet ...

Located in western India, primarily in Rajasthan, the Thar Desert is characterised by arid conditions and sand dunes. It covers an area of about 200,000 to 238,700 square kilometres. States like ...

Nestled in the Karakum desert, the pit was reportedly ignited in 1971 when Soviet scientists tried to contain poisonous gases emanating from the crater. A miscalculated dig to study the methane leaks ...

is located in the heart of Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert and has been consuming millions of cubic meters of natural gas each year. The 230-foot-wide, 100-foot-deep crater, which reaches ...

The fire has been burning in the Karakum desert since 1971, when Soviet scientists accidentally drilled into an underground pocket of gas and then decided to ignite it.

Braving the heatwaves, Behzod, an operator in a natural gas field, and his colleagues headed to their workstation in the vast Karakum Desert, situated in the central Asian country of Turkmenistan, ...