Zero Hedge featured this article by Irina Slav and included a VIDEO. EXCERPT:
Turkmenistan's president has ordered the government to find a way to extinguish a colossal gas fire burning since the 1970s.
Dubbed the "Gates of Hell," the fire was rumored to be started deliberately in 1971 when a gas-drilling site collapsed into a gas reservoir, and geologists decided to set it on fire to keep the methane from spewing into the atmosphere—in the expectation that the fire would die out on