Home to the Darvaza Crater, a massive molten pit that has spewed flames and noxious gases for decades, Turkmenistan has the world’s worst record when it comes to climate-heating methane leaks.
Home to the Darvaza Crater, a massive molten pit that has spewed flames and noxious gases for decades, Turkmenistan has the world’s worst record when it comes to climate-heating methane leaks.
Is that even possible? That thing is rather big.
It’s not just that one that’s on fire; they’ve got a significant amount of extraction happening (which leaks) and pipelines to move the methane around (which also leak)