Turkmenistan's 'Gateway to Hell' lit gas pit faces closure
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. The 20-metre-deep Darvaza crater in a remote stretch of the Karakum desert has been burning for decades, continuously fed by methane gas seeping from the ground since a Soviet drilling accident in