Mysteries of massive holes forming in Siberian permafrost unlocked by scientist

Click Here to Read: Mysteries of massive holes forming in Siberian permafrost unlocked by scientists  By Katie Hunt on the CNN website on February 17, 2021.
The walls of this immense crater look as though they could have been scooped out of ice cream, but for the protruding ends of plant roots. And at more than 85 meters (275 feet) tall in places, Batagaika’s cliff-faces keep growing while the crater below becomes deeper and wider. Batagaika Crater has formed as rising temperatures have thawed the permafrost in Siberia.  Image: NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.