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Batagaika crater

The NYT

From space, it resembles a stingray impressed on the coniferous forest. Already more than half a mile deep and about 3,000 feet wide, the Batagaika crater is growing as the ground beneath it melts. The cliff face retreats 40 feet every year, revealing buried treasures once locked in the ice.

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bottom photo is a trip. Part of my brain refuses to accept it's not a close up photo of a slab of peat with the green stuff being moss and the like. It just looks wrong that the green stuff includes trees and the the "slab" is enormous.

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, what the fuck... dafoe-horror