Month in Review: January 2012’s Must Read News
January 31, 2012
It’s time for a review of the ten most popular titbits of caving news published on Caving News in the last 30 days. This look back gives you a chance …
January 2012 Archive
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French Caver Diver Dies in Mishap at Swiss Spring
January 31, 2012 / Switzerland, EuropeA French cave diver died this past Sunday, January 29th during an afternoon dive in the Chaudanne spring, near the town of Rossinière Vaud, Switzerland. While the 30-year-old dived alone …
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Poll: Are the Actors at Fault in Expendables 2 Bat Cave Fiasco?
Recently it came out that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are now getting flak from environmentalists for participating in the filming of their new movie, The Expendables 2, inside one …
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Outdoor Cave Installation Wins Architectural Competition
January 30, 2012 / Chile, South AmericaA proposal that won last year’s Young Architects Program was inspired heavily from caves. The design, created by the Chilean group GUN Arquitectos, features numerous slender “stalactites” and “stalagmites” which, …
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Blue Holes in Bahamas Offer Glimpse at Early Life on Earth
January 29, 2012 / Bahamas, North AmericaRecent discoveries made by researches from Texas A&M University at Galveston are providing a glimpse into how life formed in the Earth’s oceans, millions of years ago. The researchers have …
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White Nose Syndrome Confirmed in Europe
January 28, 2012 / Czech Republic, EuropeAn article in the January 2012 issue of the Journal of Wildlife Diseases confirms the discovery of white-nose syndrome in European bats. Although European bats had been seen exhibiting the …
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Thousands of Lebanese Fruit Bats Slaughtered by Vandals
The largest fruit bat colony in the middle east has been decimated by vandals, with thousands of bats found slaughtered. A routine check of the highly endangered bats, which reside …
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Actors Under Fire for Disturbing Bats at Devetashka Cave
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are the most recent to come under fire from enviromentalists, after participating in the filming off the upcoming sequel, The Expendables 2 inside one of …
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National Guard Conducts Exercise in Jewel Cave
January 27, 2012 / South Dakota, United States, North AmericaLast Thursday January 19th, the South Dakota National Guard‘s 82nd Civil Support Team, together with park staff conducted a emergency response exercise/mock cave rescue at Jewel Cave National Monument. The …
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New White Nose Syndrome Estimates Too High Says NSS
January 26, 2012 / United States, North AmericaIn a letter sent earlier this week to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Speleological Society requested that they publicly release the data and methodology that led to …
