{"id":534230,"date":"2024-11-07T14:15:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T17:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=534230"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:15:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T17:15:41","slug":"gateway-to-the-underworld-opening-wider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/gateway-to-the-underworld-opening-wider\/","title":{"rendered":"Gateway to the underworld opening wider"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_534194\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-534194 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/RPF-notas-cratera-batagaika-2024-06-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/RPF-notas-cratera-batagaika-2024-06-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/RPF-notas-cratera-batagaika-2024-06-800-250x168.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/RPF-notas-cratera-batagaika-2024-06-800-700x469.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/RPF-notas-cratera-batagaika-2024-06-800-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Pavel Pavlenko\u2009\/\u2009Google Earth<\/span>The edges of Batagaika crater are collapsing and releasing between 4,000 and 5,000 tons of carbon per year<span class=\"media-credits\">Pavel Pavlenko\u2009\/\u2009Google Earth<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Batagaika crater in northeastern Siberia, Russia, is nicknamed the \u201cgateway to the underworld\u201d due to its immense depth, which is increasing as the surrounding ice melts. The region is covered by permafrost \u2014 a layer of soil that remains frozen for two years or more. In the Batagaika crater, the ice now melting may have been frozen for up to 650,000 years. Measuring almost one square kilometer and 85 meters deep \u2014 making it the largest crater in the world \u2014 it is losing around one million cubic meters of ice per year, according to researchers at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. The result is that between 4,000 and 5,000 tons of carbon are being released annually. This is an alarming situation, since the permafrost covers an area of around 15 million square kilometers (the equivalent to all of South America, excluding Argentina) and is estimated to hold three times the amount of carbon as all living plant matter on the planet. The melting of the permafrost, which is already beginning to reveal other craters, could have serious consequences on the global climate (<em>LiveScience<\/em>, May 6; <em>Geomorphology<\/em>, June 15).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crater in Russia growing larger and releasing between 4,000 and 5,000 tons of carbon per year","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[200,240],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-534230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-environment","tag-geology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534231,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534230\/revisions\/534231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534230"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=534230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}