Eagle, Alaska © James Brooks
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There’s a fire burning in a remote mountaintop in Alaska and local residents would like to know why. An underground fire in the mountains around Eagle, Alaska is known to have been burning since at least October 2012, but may have burned longer unobserved.
Experts have suggested that it could be a new volcano, or possibly oil or natural gas deposits that are burning beneath the mountain’s surface. Conservation authorities have measured the temperatures inside fissures in the vicinity at 285 degrees Celsius. People in the area are concerned about the sulfurous odors that frequently waft into town from the mountain after an explosion occurred sometime last year.
The changes to the landscape over time have been described as “dramatic” and residents are being provided air monitors to measure any dangerous substances in the air.
Find out more about this from CBC News