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A huge well of molten carbon that would spell disaster for the planet if released has been found under the US.
Scientists at Royal Holloway University in London have discovered that much of the western United States is sitting on a boiling area of the Earth’s mantle–and its melting underground as we speak.
The pool of molten carbon is about 700,000 square miles, roughly the same size as Mexico, and will create serious chaos when it inevitably erupts.