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Batagaika Crater
July 28 , 2023
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- Russia’s Batagaika Crater is located in the far eastern Siberian taiga (that is, boreal forest).
- It’s a rapidly growing 1-kilometer (0.6-mile) pit.
- Scientists call it as a mega-slump.
- The expanding crater highlights rapid changes occurring even to Earth’s geology, as Earth’s climate changes in this century.
- As the active soil slumps, more of the surrounding and underlying frozen soil is exposed and melts.
- It causing the land to slump further and the extent and speed of the permafrost thawing to increase.
- Batagaika Crater is expanding about 10 meters (33 feet) per year.
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