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As Joe Biden weighs his approval of a major oil project in the far north, climate activists are calling on the president to uphold his green credentials.

The Darvaza gas crater in Turkmenistan has been burning continuously for decades, fueled by flammable methane gas from vast underground stores.

You also can't stop an eruption by cooling magma with cold water.

The oil and gas lease sale in New Orleans on Wednesday saw 33 companies submit bids totalling over $198 million.

Some 80 million acres of federal waters are up for grabs in the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 257.

Louisiana Solicitor General Elizabeth Murrill told Newsweek Biden's administration had "attacked the entire fossil fuel industry" by trying to prevent the sale. But environmental campaigners want Biden to do more.

Environmentalists say exploratory drilling could release harmful chemicals into the surrounding wetlands and rivers.

The administration announced a leasing program on Monday that will open up more than 1.5 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration.

The Trump administration justified the expansion of drilling in the Arctic ircle, saying "there is not a climate crisis."

The record-breaking hole is the deepest ever drilled using hot water.

The Department of Interior has proposed rolling back parts of 2016's Well Control Rule, which put safety standards in place for systems that prevent blowouts and enact emergency measures if offshore oil and gas drillers lose control of their rigs. The original rule was crafted by the Obama administration as a direct response to the BP oil spill.

Researchers think the practice led to an earthquake that caused tens of millions of dollars in damage.

The gas rig was much larger than an oil rig.

The Trump administration wants to rollback several offshore drilling safety measures implemented in 2010 after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is on the verge of being opened to oil drilling.

The senator called drilling in the Arctic a "tremendous opportunity."

The two-month expedition will drill into the seafloor to find out more about the submerged "continent."

Environmental groups decried Ryan Zinke's announcement.

Trump's EPA pick Scott Pruitt is in the pocket of the fossil fuel industry.

The ban affects federal waters off Alaska in the Chukchi Sea and most of the Beaufort Sea and in the Atlantic from New England to Chesapeake Bay.

The oil giant's increasingly bad reputation at the hands of a growing global protest movement led it to give up on Arctic ambitions.

"The Arctic is a unique treasure," Clinton tweeted. "Given what we know, it's not worth the risk of drilling."

The final permit came after the company repaired a ship essential to its exploration in the region this season.

The ship was headed to the Arctic for an oil-drilling mission before being forced to turn around.

The risk of another oil spill in Alaska is too high for BP to resume exploration.

The Danish toy manufacturer ended its relationship with Shell after a video linking Lego to Shell's controversial practice of arctic drilling went viral on YouTube.

The US shale revolution has been a welcome respite, but some argue it may not be all that beneficial in the long run

Millions of American homeowners now find themselves living within a mile of drilling activity that they say is deflating the value of their homes, making it hard for them to move.