As flowing water erodes the limestone layered beneath the Earth’s surface in southwestern Indiana, caves and sinkholes develop. This hilly underground landscape occurs naturally and allows unfiltered ...

If microbiology is the study of microbes, and sociology is the study of societies, then meteorologists ought to be giving us the forecast on incoming space rocks. In the Sciences, labels are supposed ...

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 ...

Twenty percent of tested wells in Door County contain evidence of coliform bacteria, according to Kevin Masarik, outreach specialist with the University of Wisconsin-Extension's Center for Watershed ...

The South China Karst, which is made up of the stone forest in Yunnan province, Libo county in Guizhou province, and Wulong county in Chongqing city, was inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List. The ...

Our report on the study of karst took us from local experts to a globally-acclaimed scientist. The ground under Augusta County, the way it's formed, is simple to conceptualize if you picture one ...

A villager harvests Sichuan pepper in Zhennan Town of Wuchuan Gelao and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, June 16, 2022. Covering a wide area of karst topography and ...

Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images Cave explorers stumbled upon a prehistoric forest at the bottom of a giant sinkhole in South China earlier this month. Sinkholes such as these are also known in Chinese ...

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