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 ...

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 ...

Beginning in 1903 with the creation of Wind Cave National Park, ten National Park Service units have been created because of the caves they contained. Since the establishment of the National Park ...

Karst landscapes are formed primarily by the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, leading to distinctive features including sinkholes, dolines, caves, and underground drainage systems.

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 ...

Activists in Indonesia demand the government to issue a new regulation aimed at better protecting the country’s karsts, the unique rocky landscapes that are home to species found nowhere else on Earth ...

This issue of World Heritage is devoted to a number of truly extraordinary World Heritage sites that allow a better understanding of the history of the Earth and the formation of landscape. It is no ...

1. Having examined Documents WHC-07/31.COM/8B and WHC-07/31.COM/INF.8B.2, 2. Inscribes the South China Karst, China, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (vii) and (viii): 3. Adopts the ...