Researchers working in the Barents Sea have discovered hundreds of craters on the Arctic Sea floor, some measuring over a kilometer in width. These craters, which date back to the end of the last Ice Age, were formed when large reserves of methane exploded in the wake of retreating ice sheets. Around 12,000 years ago, … Continue reading Hundreds of gigantic craters from past catastrophic methane eruptions found on the sea floor in the Arctic Ocean