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A rather enthusiastic appreciation for the telescope. _ the president of turkmenistan has ordered his officials to find a way to put out a fire that's been burning for decades in a huge desert crater, nicknamed the gateway to hell. mystery surrounds how the darvaza gas crater in the karakum desert formed and began to burn. the president, gurbanguly berdymukhamedov, wants it extinguished for environmental and health reasons, but also as part of efforts to increase gas exports. the canadian explorer george kourounis was the first person ever to descend to the bottom of the crater. a short time a...
The president of turkmenistan has ordered his officials to find a way to put out a fire that's been burning for decades in a huge desert crater, nicknamed the gateway to hell. mystery surrounds how the darvaza gas crater in the karakum desert formed and began to burn. the president, gurbanguly berdymukhamedov, wants it extinguished for environmental and health reasons, but also as part of efforts to increase gas exports. i've been speaking to canadian explorer george kourounis, the first person ever to descend to the bottom of the crater. he told me how he managed to do it. it was very challen...
That they used on this site for 300 or 400 years has the potential to be preserved in more or less the same state it was thrown away in, under the ground where we're standing, which is an incredible opportunity. just think of the range of stuff that we could be standing on right now, and what kind of story that can tell us about life here almost 2,000 years ago. they've dug boreholes to monitor what's happening, and at teesside university, they're analysing soil samples. specifically, we're looking at moisture levels, total carbon, total nitrogen, the chemistry and microbiology changes that go...
Where it should be very, very wet. but what's happening is it's drying out throughout the year, and the land is dropping. this is magna, one of the biggest roman forts. the site has never been dug, and now archaeologists are worried because the treasures buried here could begin to rot away. pretty much everything that they used on this site for 300 or 400 years has the potential to be preserved in more or less the same state it was thrown away in, under the ground where we're standing, which is an incredible opportunity. just think of the range of stuff that we could be standing on right now, ...