In an underground cave of southern China, an eyeless river creature with an externally “visible” skull moved through the dark waters. Its hard-to-reach home helped it go largely unnoticed. But when ...

In this paper the focus is on the surface landforms that are found on carbonate karst, on caves within carbonate karst, and on the springs that discharge from carbonate karst. Around 20.3 million km² ...

Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, in northwestern Madagascar, is filled with breathtaking shards of karst limestone. Creating ...

“We have over 4,000 reported karst features and several thousand caves,” Selig said. “We’re still finding new caves all the time and there’s still a lot to learn about Indiana’s caves.

dubbed the first ever International Year of Caves and Karst by the International Union of Speleology. Karst can be found worldwide where water has gradually worn away rock, usually limestone, over ...

In addition, the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline would pass directly through the Ellett Valley millipede’s range and four of the millipede’s remaining cave sites, threatening its survival and ...

Here, you will visit Kostanjevica cave, a karst cave system that extends for around 2 kilometres. It was formed by the dissolution of limestone over millions of years and is known for its ...

The report conducted by Veni, who served as executive director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI) of the USA from 2011 to 2023, supports the investigation of the environmental ...

To the millions living in the province, the erroding karst has caused water accessibility to be few and far between. See the Yunnan Province Map. Close-up Yunnan China Map: The Yang Liu River ...

pinnacle karst and cone karst formations, along with other spectacular characteristics such as natural bridges, gorges and large cave systems. The stone forests of Shilin are considered superlative ...