Firefighters Free Horse Trapped in California Sinkhole
January 21, 2015 / California, United States, North America
With the help of an excavator, San Luis Obispo county Fire Fighters freed a horse after it became stuck in a sinkhole.
January 2015 Archive
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Early Surveillance Detects WNS Fungus in Another Wisconsin Cave
January 20, 2015 / Wisconsin, United States, North AmericaEarly winter surveillance of 15 Wisconsin caves revealed that two bats in a single Dane County cave tested positive for Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome.
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Travel Agent Recounts Visit to Vietnam’s First Volcanic Cave System
A member of the Vietnam Society of Travel Agents recounts his eye-opening experience exploring the country’s newly discovered volcanic cave system.
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Flooding Closes Malaysia’s Wind and Fairy Caves
Malaysia’s Wind Cave and Fairy Cave Nature Reserves have been closed to the public following heavy rains that overflowed the Sungai Sarawak Kanan river.
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Underground Bike Park to Open Below Louisville, Kentucky
January 20, 2015 / Kentucky, United States, North AmericaOver 45 bike trails are slated to open up 100 feet (30 meters) below the city of Louisville, Kentucky in early February 2015.
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Construction Continues on Jewel Cave Parking Lot
January 20, 2015 / South Dakota, United States, North AmericaThe new parking lot project at South Dakota’s Jewel Cave National Monument is over 95% complete.
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Debate Continues Over Ancient Cave Art of Swimmers in Sahara Desert
Are the figures depicted on the walls of Egypt’s Cave of the Swimmers actually swimming? If so, what does that indicate about climate change?
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9th Annual BATFEST Scheduled at Lincoln Caverns
January 19, 2015 / Pennsylvania, United States, North AmericaThis Valentines Day, Pennsylvania’s Lincoln Caverns will once again be holding its annual BATFEST.
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Discovery of Rare Bats Doubles World’s Known Population
The discovery of several new roosts of Wroughton’s Free-tailed Bats (Otomops wroughtoni) in a number of Indian caves has increased the number of known individuals of the rare species to nearly 200.
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Attend Under the Earth Groundhog Days @ Cave of the Mounds
January 19, 2015 / Wisconsin, United States, North AmericaLearn about groundhogs and other underground critters during Under the Earth Groundhog Days at Wisconsin’s Cave of the Mounds.
