Batagaika – Gateway to the Underworld by Heiner Kubny | Aug 14, 2020 | Archive, Climate change, Science, ScienceThe crater appeared in the 1960s after the forest was cleared in the area for road construction. (Photo: s-vfu.ru) Known to the locals as the “gateway to the underworld”, “Batagaika” is the biggest result of permafrost thawing on the planet....