From April 3rd to 30th members of the 17th Anglo-Sarawak expedition, entitled Mulu Caves 2012, visited Malaysia‘s Gunung Mulu National Park. During the month-long expedition, which based itself at the …
A young girl walking along a sidewalk ran into trouble last month when a deep sinkhole opened up beneath her feet. The incident was seen by a passing taxi driver …
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 a rescue operation that lasted more than 4 hours, Indian forest rangers saved a 15-year-old female elephant that had become trapped in a crevice in the Periyanayakanpalayam forest range …
New cave art has been recently discovered in two caves near the southern tip of India. Discovered by a young archaeologist in the remote Udumalaipettai forest in India’s Tirupur district, …
A new species of cave dwelling spider has been identified in a network of three limestone caves in the Menoreh Hills area of Purworejo in Central Java. First discovered in …
A member of an expedition team was killed after he fell some 215 meters (705 feet) into a cave in China’s Yunnan province on Monday. Hiker Li Xiong, 23, fell …
In order to free up more land for housing and economic development, Hong Kong is looking at relocating some of it’s more unpopular utilities underground in artificial caverns. Two feasibility …
According to a recent report by the Los Angeles Times, over 30 million people in China live underground. Many of the underground “cave homes” are located in China’s Shaanxi province, …
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 …
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