Huge Underwater Methane Craters Discovered In The Arctic

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Boom! Methane bubbles are probably to blame here. G Tipene/Shutterstock

Craters up to a kilometer (0.6 miles) wide have been found within the Barents Sea off the northern coast of Norway. As reported by the Sunday Times, these are likely to be due to unstable build-ups of methane, a notoriously volatile and at times explosive natural gas.