In the middle of Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert, a massive crater has been burning nonstop for decades, glowing like a portal at night. It started as a Soviet drilling disaster that opened a methane ...

Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert hosts a fiery pit, the Darvaza Gas Crater, nicknamed the Door to Hell. This site has blazed for ...

Turkmenistan said on Friday it will capture the gas fuelling its "Gateway to Hell", putting the man-made fire pit at risk of closure as the reclusive state seeks to reduce its greenhouse emissions.

Reducing the fire is an important step for Turkmenistan's climate ambitions. The world's biggest methane emitter through gas leaks, according to the International Energy Agency, it has committed to ...