A national cave rescue exercise last weekend saw 100 people participate in a mock rescue in New Zealand’s Greenlink cave system. The event, held every three years using funding from …
A new Petzl video features the 2012 Wowo expedition to the Nakanai Mountains of Papua New Guinea. The footage, commentated by special agent professor Dingle, follows a team of twelve …
Recent surveys of New Zealand’s Matainaka Cave have confirmed it, as of October 2012, as the world’s longest sea cave. Based on survey work by Nicholas Barth, Matainaka Cave, located …
Australia’s Piccaninnie Ponds Karst Wetlands has just been recognized as one of the world’s most important wetlands. Located on South Australia’s limestone coast, Piccaninnie Ponds joins over 2,000 locations around …
The ongoing record-setting heat wave in Australia is giving their large flying fox bats a hard time, causing hundreds to fall out of the sky. With record temperatures at nearly …
An 18-year-old man was rescued from one of Australia’s Wombeyan Caves on Tuesday afternoon after a fall which left him unable to move. Rescue crews, including the Ambulance Service’s Special …
In an interview last month with Radio Australia, caver/photographer Philip Bence discussed this years WOWO 2012 expedition to Papua New Guinea. This spring’s month-long trip to the Nakanai Ranges of …
A newly discovered insect is one of many rare and endangered species that are threatened by the development of open-pit coal mine on the Denniston Plateau on New Zealand’s South …
Cavers exploring in New Zealand’s Kahurangi National Park have discovered a new cave with what discoverers are calling most impressive entrance in the country. The cave, dubbed Te Manui, was …
An 82-year-old caver was rescued earlier today after spending the night in a cave in New Zealand’s West Coast region. The long time member of the Canterbury Caving Group, Derek …
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