Microscopic traces of wood ash found in Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa have been identified as the earliest known evidence of the use of fire. Discovered by an international team …
Soon Caving News will be launching a weekly post that highlights the top threads on CaveChat, the official caving forum of the National Speleological Society. These weekly posts will serve …
CaveSim, the intelligent crawl-through obstacle course which wowed cavers at the 2011 NSS Convention in Colorado is coming to West Virginia this summer. The 15 meter (50 foot) long …
Starting this weekend, an international gathering of international karst scientists and cavers is being held in Iran to study its salt domes. The week-long event, held by the Iranian Cavers …
In response to a recent petition to the White House by the Center for Biological Diversity which called for the closure all caves and mines on public lands, caver John …
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, working with state and federal agency partners, have released new national white-nose syndrome decontamination protocols. The protocols, which help reduce the risk of transmission, …
Researchers studying microbes that live deep inside New Mexico’s Lechuguilla Cave have discovered bacteria that are naturally resistant to antibiotics. The research, done by Dr. Gerry Wright, of McMaster University, …
Friends of Wind Cave National Park, a group which formed last summer in order to help “preserve and promote Wind Cave National Park as a natural and cultural treasure”, has …
Renowned cave photographer and publisher Urs Widmer died in Switzerland on Sunday morning after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Urs was the founder and co-owner of Speleo Projects, an international …
Carlsbad Caverns National Park had a busy spring break season with 46,064 visitors to the park during the month of March, an increase of 2 percent for the same period …
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