In many parts of the United States, the land beneath forests, farms, and neighborhoods is slowly changing. The ground may appear solid, but beneath it, water is quietly dissolving certain types of ...

Although caves and karst landscapes often serve as a destination for fourth grade field trips, they certainly have direct relevance to the 1.5 billion people who live in karst regions — many of whom ...

Unique sights: Water notch and Kanthan River inside Kanthan Cave. Tropical limestone karst landscapes support rare and endangered flora and fauna that needs to be researched and catalogued. — Photos: ...

In past columns I discussed two of the features a person can find in our Indiana karst landscape. There are, however, other karst features of interest in our state. Sinkholes are a very common ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sinovas catching a lizard as he searches for new species in a cave at Phnom Proek district in Battambang province. A BIOLOGIST might go a lifetime without discovering a new species. It took a team ...

These landscapes are like natural sculpture parks, with dramatic terrain dotted with caves and towers of bedrock slowly sculpted by water over thousands of years. Karst landscapes are beautiful and ...