https://earther.gizmodo.com/methane-is-blowing-more-holes-in-the-arctic-1846242991

Dharna NoorWednesday 5:45PM201

The Siberian tundra is still out here exploding. A newstudyfrom the Woodwell Climate Research Center has identified three new craters in the region’s increasingly volatile permafrost, and the climate crisis is to blame.

Researchers have been seeing giant holes form in western Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula for years. The first, discovered by workers back in2014, measured 262 feet (80 meters) in diameter. Since then, scientists have found another six craters on Yamal and the nearby Gydan peninsula, most recentlydiscovering a crateras deep as half a football field last year. While researchers have suspected explosive methane gas has welled up into the tundra as it thaws and caused the explosions, it’s been an area of active research.

“These craters represent an Earth system…