Tuesday 17 March 2015

This Hellish Underground Fire Has Burned for 100 Years

This Hellish Underground Fire Has Burned for 100 Years


Fires rage unimpeded just below the earth’s surface in Jharia, India, slowly consuming a vast store of coal and occasionally opening immense chasms that swallow everything above them. Johnny Haglund documents what it’s like living with such an inferno for "The Earth is on Fire", which recently took second place at Pictures of the Year International for Science and Natural History Picture Story.

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