In Turkey, "the Ground Has Gone Mad": It Reveals Holes

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Photographer Onur Coban documented the outbreak of numerous dolines in the plain, a natural phenomenon aggravated by climate change and droughtIts name evokes a spring (pinar) that dried up a long time ago. The district of Karapinar is on the outskirts of Konya, the largest province of Turkey, in the rural heart of Anatolia. Here, everything seems dry. The winds sweep a landscape of desolate steppes, tilled fields and pastures, craters and cones…