Alberta Salt Caverns to be Used for Energy Storage
February 3, 2015 / Canada, North America
Plans are afoot to store excess wind energy, as compressed air, in an underground salt cavern in eastern Alberta.
Canada Caving News
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Parks Canada Dismisses Two Cave Swimmers
January 30, 2015 / Canada, North AmericaTwo Parks Canada employees have been dismissed after being charged for swimming in the Cave & Basin National Historic Site pools in Canada’s Banff National Park
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Safety in Numbers Does Not Apply for Northern Long-Eared Bats
January 30, 2015 / Canada, United States, North AmericaScientists examining the effects of white-nose syndrome on a continental scale have some bad news for the remaining northern long-eared bats.
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Watch: Discovery’s Daily Planet Joins Canadian Cave Rescuers
January 26, 2015 / Canada, North AmericaAlberta/British Columbia Cave Rescue were recently joined by Daily Planet host Alan Nursall for a mock rescue at Alberta’s Rat’s Nest Cave.
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Article Chronicles the Search for an Inter-Island Cave Connection
January 23, 2015 / Canada, North AmericaUpon hearing rumors of its existence, Canadian cavers searched for an underground connection between Thetis and Valdes Islands in British Columbia’s Strait of Georgia.
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Back to Black: Absolute Darkness Caving Themed Beer Returns
January 22, 2015 / Canada, North AmericaA beer that attempted to capture the dark, mysterious and exhilarating essence of caving is back, glow-in-the-dark label and all.
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Banff Cave Swimmer Receives $4,500 Fine
January 19, 2015 / Canada, North AmericaA man who pleaded guilty to swimming in the Cave & Basin National Historic Site in Canada’s Banff National Park will have to pay $4,500 in fines.
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Canada Adds Three Bat Species to Endangered List
December 18, 2014 / Canada, North AmericaThe Canadian Government announced yesterday that three bat species have been added to Schedule 1 of the Canadian Species at Risk Act (SARA). The Little Brown Myotis (Myotis lucifugus), the …
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Researchers Explore an Underwater Cave in Search of Salmon
December 5, 2014 / Canada, North AmericaCave divers in British Columbia have been following Coho Salmon as they swim up a stream that disappears in the side of a mountain.
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Geomyces destructans Reclassified Pseudogymnoascus destructans
July 19, 2013 / Canada, United States, North AmericaA shake up in fungi taxonomy has resulted in Geomyces destructans, the fungus known to be the cause of white-nose syndrome in hibernating bats, to be reclassified Pseudogymnoascus destructans. Since …
