This incredible submerged cave network is the longest of its kind in the world and plays a vital role in the region.

Far below the surface of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a flooded labyrinth of limestone tunnels has quietly guarded one of the ...

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The early 1900s were an exciting time across the world, with rapid advances in the steel, electric and automobile industries. The industrial changes also mark an inflection point in our climate.

Researchers in Israel have discovered "four 1,900-year-old, excellently preserved Roman swords" and a javelin head in a "small hidden cave" near the shoreline of the Dead Sea, the country’s ...

Florida Scientist, Vol. 79, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: STATUS OF FLORIDA'S GROUNDWATER RESOURCES (Fall, 2016), pp. 239-256 (18 pages) Caves and associated dissolution features provide a valuable resource ...

When it comes to tourist destinations, Scotland is best known for its gorgeous Highlands region, its scenic lochs, and its cultural centers in cities like Edinburgh. What travelers don't associate ...

Excavations on the storied Judean cliffside revealed a new Dead Sea Scrolls cave, full of scroll storage jars and other antiquities, the first such discovery in over 60 years. The discovery upends a ...

When the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the 9.1 magnitude event — the third-largest tremor ever recorded on a seismograph — was so strong ...

Caves are a very special environment characterized by complete darkness, low temperature fluctuations and high humidity. Species that live there have adapted to these conditions and have developed ...

A new method for dating destructive past earthquakes, based on evidence remaining in caves has been developed by scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Geological Survey of Israel. A ...