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Fabulous Flyers: Bats @ Jones Park Nature Center
July 12, 2011 / Texas, United States, North AmericaOn Saturday July 23rd, the Jesse H. Jones Park & Nature Center in Humlbe, Texas will be featuring a program entitled “Fabulous Flyers: Bats”. The first half of the program …
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Reopening Mine Endangers Sudwala Caves
July 12, 2011 / South Africa, AfricaThe reopening of a gold mine on Mankele mountain in South Africa has environmentalists scrambling to try and protect the popular Sudwala Caves, widely regarded as the oldest known caves …
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Prehistoric Fossils Discovered in Backyard Cave
July 11, 2011 / Texas, United States, North AmericaA small parcel of land in Comal County, north of San Antinio, Texas is home to a cave that has been found to contain prehistoric fossils. William “BT” Price, a …
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Pennsylvania’s Crystal Cave Celebrates 140th Anniversary
July 10, 2011 / Pennsylvania, United States, North AmericaTo celebrate the 140th anniversary of it’s discovery, Crystal Cave in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, will be offering historic lantern tours this summer. The first time since the cave was wired for …
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Worms Feast on Caves Rare Chalk Carvings
July 9, 2011 / England, United Kingdom, EuropeConservationists in Hertfordshire are working to preserve historic underground chalk carvings from an infestation of worms. The carvings that date from the 14th century, cover the walls of Royston Cave, …
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Sue Happy Center for Biological Diversity is at it Again
July 8, 2011 / United States, North AmericaThe Center for Biological Diversity filed a federal lawsuit in Washington on Wednesday challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s decision to issue a special permit to the National Speleological …
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Expedition Discovers Human Remains in Cenote at Chichén Itzá
July 7, 2011 / Mexico, North AmericaAn expedition to a cenote at the well known archaeological site of Chichén Itzá in Mexico has led to a discovery of the bones of six humans, including two children, …
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Kartchner Caverns: Microbiological Research Lab
July 6, 2011 / Arizona, United States, North AmericaArizona’s Kartchner Caverns, 70 kilometers (43 miles) south east of Tucson, has been the subject of a five year study to take a look at it’s microbiological residents. The investigation …
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Music of Pink Floyd Fills Cavern
July 5, 2011 / England, United Kingdom, EuropeThe Darkside of Pink Floyd, a Pink Floyd tribute band played two sold out shows this past Saturday inside Kents Cavern. Besides performing nearly the entirety of Dark Side of …
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European Cave Rescue Meeting 2011
The fifth European Cave Rescue Meeting will be held this September 15th to 18th in Starigrad Paklenica, Croatia. The meeting, put on by the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service Cave Rescue …
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80 Year Old Cave Diver Pushes the Limit
July 3, 2011 / England, United Kingdom, EuropeJohn Buxton of Bedford chose to spent his 80th birthday cave diving in the Wookey Hole Caves. This feat may have set a new world record for the oldest human …
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Tarpon Springs Sinkhole Problem is No Surprise
July 2, 2011 / Florida, United States, North AmericaA sinkhole that occurred on June 16th in the Union Academy neighbourhood of Tarpon Springs, Flordia forced one elderly couple, Nathaniel Crawford, 90, and his wife Virginia, 83, from their …
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New Zealand’s Stormy Pot System Deepens
July 1, 2011 / New Zealand, OceaniaThe five-member Extreme Cave Team is at it again. They returned on Monday from a seven day expedition back to the Stormy Pot system, which was discovered last year while …
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NSS Convention Granted Permit by the Bureau of Land Management
June 30, 2011 / Colorado, United States, North AmericaFollowing the lead of the U.S. Forest Service, The Bureau of Land Management has granted a special use permit to the National Speleological Society during their upcoming convention in Glenwood …
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Review Finds Two Bat Species May Warrant Endangered Species Status
June 29, 2011 / United States, North AmericaThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have announced that the eastern small-footed and northern long-eared bats may indeed warrant federal protection as threatened or endangered species, after an an initial …
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