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 ...

What better time to learn about and plan a visit to a cave than this year, dubbed the first ever International Year of Caves and Karst by the International Union of Speleology. Karst can be found ...

“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.

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 ...

It contains the most significant types of karst landforms, including tower karst, pinnacle karst and cone karst formations, along with other spectacular characteristics such as natural bridges, gorges ...

Situated in Vietnam, the Son Doong Cave is a UNESCO World Heritage site, celebrated for its vast limestone karst formations and lush jungle. Located in central Kentucky, USA, the mammoth cave can ...

Karst refers to the topography ... Mat Stafa (geoheritage), the scholars showcased their projects ranging from cave system mapping to the quantification of limestone hills’ ecological services.

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 ...