Spelunking News

The state of New Mexico has spent more than a half-million dollars investigating and monitoring a giant cavern in southeastern New Mexico, and now it wants the company responsible for the property to pay up.

Colorful cave deposits long thought to be ordinary minerals are actually mats of waste excreted by previously unknown types of microbes, scientists say.

New revelations of a big hole in the moon don't revive the notion that our cosmic companion is made of Swiss cheese.

The Louisville MegaCavern beneath the Louisville Zoo off Poplar Level Road is offering people a chance to drive their vehicles through the vast underground mine - to see holiday displays with hundreds of animated characters and more than one million lights.

The previous post reminded me of a news item reported roughly two weeks ago, that the town of Carlsbad, NM, is in danger of collapsing into the earth below due to the out-of-control dissolution of underground salt deposits.

If you enjoy the exploration of one of the worlds last frontiers then pit caving or vertical caving might be the extreme adventure sport for you.

Romania has over 12,000 caves within its borders. This is the highest concentration of caves known to exist in one small region in the world.

SOUTHAMPTONa S Harbour Lights Picturehouse is to play host to an exclusive invitation- only UK preview screening of The Descent Part 2. The screening, being put on by The Coast in conjunction with Celador Films, will allow Southampton film fans to see the film well ahead of its general release on December 4. Some of the people behind The Descent ...

Divers bravely went were no man had gone before in a bid to find a link between the colossal Aspoladeru la Texa and Cueva Culiembro caves in northern Spain for the first time ever.

Carter Caves State Resort Park is hosting a dinner theater that is sure to bring back memories and provide a lot of laughs for guests.

A smelly Steamboat curiosity yields an extraordinary scientific discovery. SULPHUR CAVE has never been a big secret.

In Jinya Village, a modest settlement in Muramba Sub-county, Kisoro District, lies a dark formidable burrow that appears to be a den of dangerous animals, snakes and insects.

California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to a new study by UC Davis doctoral student Jessica Oster and geology professor Isabel Montanez.

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Crews pumping water out of the Sanford Underground Laboratory in Lead have reopened a second deep shaft that eventually will be used as the primary entrance and exit for science experiments.

Awe-inspiring: Millions of years old, the Belum caves are a perfect tourist destination.

I am a cave explorer and an active member of the Wisconsin Speleological Society.

The bright yellow signs on U.S. 285 are the first indication that things aren't right in Carlsbad.

A small chamber with a flowstone floor, calcite columns, and fine stalactites called 'soda straws'. The cave system of which it is a part is located next to a controversial proposed limestone quarry.

NatGeo photographer Stephen Alvarez took this amazing shot of the Stephens Gap Cave in Alabama.