Recent discoveries in caves beneath the Amazon jungle are causing a problem for a planned mining operation. Cavers exploring some of the estimated 1,000 caves in the area have discovered …
In May 2012, Dr. Luiz Eduardo Panisset Travassos and his PhD student Bruno Durão Rodrigues went to the Brazilian Amazon Forest to register the probable first Brazilian case of rock …
Researchers working in Lapa do Santo cave in central eastern Brazil have discovered what is believed to be the oldest rock carving found the Americas so far. Found in 2009, …
A proposal that won last year’s Young Architects Program was inspired heavily from caves. The design, created by the Chilean group GUN Arquitectos, features numerous slender “stalactites” and “stalagmites” which, …
Brazilian scientists have discovered a new river in the Amazon basin. What makes it especially interested is that it runs ~4 kilometers below the Amazon river. The newly discovered river …
Considered the most beautiful cave network in the world, Chile’s Marble Cathedral is an intricate system of water-filled caverns set in Lake General Carrera, the second largest freshwater lake in …
An archeological expedition to the jungle of Belize, exploring and surveying a cave over 60 meters (200 feet) deep in search of fossils and Mayan artifacts, led to the creation …
An expedition is in the planning stages to visit Easter Island (AKA Rapa Nui) from July 24th to August 8th, 2011. The goal, to inventory the biological and cultural resources, …
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