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An enormous fiery pit in Turkmenistan has drawn increasing scrutiny from environmentalists and the country’s government for its contribution to climate change. The Darvaza gas crater, dubbed Turkmenistan’s “Gateway to Hell,” has been spewing methane into the atmosphere for roughly 50 years.

“As far as I understand, the crater was formed during the Soviet era when the Soviets were attempting to drill for natural gas in the region,” Stefan Green, director of Genomics and Microbiome Core Facility at Chicago’s Rush University who has studied the crater’s biology, toldNewsweek.

“At the time [of the crater’s formation], drilling technology…