With the proclamation of International Day of Caves and Karst during the 43rd UNESCO General Conference in 2025 in Uzbekistan, UNESCO marked a new milestone for global geological heritage by ...

If human beings want to survive on the other planets for a long time, they must first find or set up a safe, stable, and long-term shelter. Lunar lava tubes are geological structures on the moon ...

Beneath forests, farms, and neighborhoods, water slowly dissolves rock, forming hidden underground channels and caves in ...

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 ...

The cave formations in China's southwest Guangxi Zhuang region almost look like a different world. Centuries of dissolving limestone rock, a geological process known as karst, have resulted in ...