A Little Brown bat collected from Oak Blowhole cave in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains National Park has tested positive for Geomyces destructans, the fungus behind white-nose syndrome. The confirmation was …
The body of a man was discovered this weekend in Ginnie Springs, Florida, having apparently drowned diving there two days earlier. Identified as Steve Bennet of Hendersonville, Tennessee, the body …
In research recently posted online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have, for the first time, found evidence of flu in bats. At an international …
With spring arriving and summer just around the corner. It’s time to start thinking of this years upcoming caver events. How many do you expect to attend this year? Answer …
As part of the 50th Anniversary of the Southwestern Region of the NSS, cavers have volunteered to perform a public service project at Fort Stanton State Monument in exchange for …
Declining groundwater levels in south-western Australia may result in the extinction of the aquatic creatures that live within the areas caves. Recent research published in the Journal of Australasian Cave …
In the 1930’s around 1.7 million black-nest swiftlets called the caves of Malaysia’s Niah National Park home. Now only around 100,000 remain. The decrease is being attributed to harvesting the …
New cave art has been found in three locations in Cuba’s Imias Wild Reserve in the eastern province of Guantanamo. Discovered during an expedition by members of the Speleological Society …
U.S. Senators Leahy, Cardin, and Lautenberg are hosting a briefing and discussion on white-nose syndrome next Thursday, March 22nd, 2012. The event will bring together leading experts on WNS who …
Alabama’s Cathedral Caverns State Park has started a project to convert its older incandescent lighting system in the cave with LED lighting. LEDs, or light-emitting diodes have many benefits over …
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