GeoKarst is a new EU-funded project highlighting a unique landscape of caves, gorges and medieval villages near Trieste ...

It covers a quarter of the United States, and almost as much of the entire world. It results in the creation of most caves visited each year by millions of tourists around the globe, including the ...

Czech scientists have discovered a rare Ice Age engraving of a horse in a cave in the Moravian Karst, dating back about ...

As they span significant areas of Asia, Europe and the Americas, karst landscapes cover some 15 percent of the Earth’s land mass. Scientists estimate that these areas of porous bedrock are home to as ...

The connection between what happens on the surface and what happens underneath was explained in a recent webinar focusing on nitrate contamination in southeastern Minnesota’s karst landscapes.

Fauna & Flora International (FFI) has made a habit of bucking the trend by working to safeguard neglected landscapes that are not necessarily a priority for other conservation organizations. Arguably ...

The trio of newly discovered geckos illustrates the incredible and often overlooked biodiversity in these harshly beautiful landscapes, and the risks posed by the cement industry's appetite for ...

Karst and karst aquifers are formed in places where rocks, subjected to dissolving or leaching, are formed, porous and fissured enough to provide active movement of surface and groundwater through ...

It turns out that caves do a good job of providing significant answers. Those that contain animal fossils and records of ancient humans, for example, have been shown to have great value for ...

A new study led by Prof. Chen Hongsong from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed that calcium-rich bedrock can reshape the latitudinal diversity ...

Hiking may be the most comfortable way to see the sights during winter at one of the region's most popular trails. Mountain bikers and hikers head for Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area east of Rogers ...