Explorations at a small cave in the rugged mountains of Eddy County yielded ancient burials and evidence of early man....

The air is thick with the foul stench of something sickly sweet its enough to make you crook....

A collaborative study conducted by English and Chinese researchers suggests that echolocation might have evolved more than once in bats....

Yesterday I was given a tour of a super cool cave in the nearby area. Ive never really done any proper caving so ....

German animal campaigners are alarmed by the number of dead bats being found near wind turbines and have called for restrictions on generators.....

Colorado is home to hundreds of caves that only the local caving clubs know about. Fulford Cave is different.

Deep inside an underwater cave in Mexico, archaeologists may have discovered the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas....

To ensure effective monitoring of caves and determine appropriate sustainable uses of all identified cave areas recently conducted a two day training on Cave Assessment and Conservation....

The rigging is all done on this one. The entrance now has a single bolt on a rock just on the right to aid getting down into the entrance sink....

On Saturday I met Will and Jessica in Chattanooga. We consolidated into one vehicle and headed north towards Spencer to meet John H, Wood and John L for a guided trip through Keystone River Cave. Will had just recently visited the cave in June, so we decided to take advantage of his memory while it was fresh. We arrived at the cave before the others.....Actually, check out Willie Hunts photography online....

A respected cave expert has called on the government to address urgently the acidic mine water pollution in the Witwatersrand region....Disturbing news indeed. All too often outside human influences threaten caves, Karst, and other precious resources underground....

An Australian researcher has found that glow worms switch their preycatching light on and off to a daily rhythm...

Summer is almost over, but Im still on the roads, going around Romania, visiting places and taking pictures. So last week Ive been to the salt mine from Turda....

A cave specialist for the Tennessee chapter of The Nature Conservancy, Holliday had with him an infrared video camera and a laptop computer .....

CCMS used to have a hell of a great newsletter! Actually it would very beneficial for the Section to be differentiate from the Division .....

About 20 years ago, two men exploring Picture Cave found paintings on the rock walls and sent hand-drawn reproductions to archaeologists....Yeah, but you've been to France, and I havent. This doesnt quite make us even-- youve still got the upper hand.

Membership and ByLaws Change: At the 2008 Vertical Section meeting in Florida the Board elected to reduce the membership dues to zero.....

The Nature Conservancy and Ijams Nature Center in Knoxville have collaborated on the construction of three state-of-the-art cave gates at a cave system adjoining the Ijams property.....

Blanchard Springs Caverns will offer a special photo tour Sept. 6, Sept. 28 and Nov. 23.

Canadian researchers have found wind turbines can kill bats without them actually flying into the blades....

Bats are known, in part, for making an infernal racket that helps them navigate....

Britains leading Stone Age archaeologists wanted to start a hunt for 40,000-year-old Neanderthal flint hand axes at Kents Cavern...

1958 -- 50 years ago ....

Read about it on the SCCi website...

A labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids in 14 caves, some underwater, have been uncovered on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula...

When Reid Robinson looks at a stream gushing from the mouth of an underground stream, he thinks about how clean and pure water is....

Last week, Robert Coomer won his 6th national award for cave photography.....

Youth exploring the Earth from the inside out could be the theme for the new caving club formed in the Honey Brook area....

Last summer, I stepped out of my front door for my daily walk.....

Recently, the Nature Conservancy along with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of State Parks, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service purchased Indianas Cave River Valley which includes many caves.

Dips in the suns activity have triggered centuries long droughts in eastern North America, according to a new study that examined the geologic record stored within a stalagmite from a West Virginia cave....

They waited for a guided trip to Vogelherd Cave. It cannot be called a real cave, like one that allows you to descend deeply into the earth .....

Skeleton Cave near Bend closed to the public most of the year because of vandalism will be open to the public....

Of the hundreds of natural passageways leading into the underworlds of Tuolumne, Calaveras and Mariposa Counties, Bower Cave is by far one of the most unique and interesting caverns ....

Just a word of wisdom from this unwise one. My compurter picked up a virus called Anti virus 2009. It wont let you on the internet without them wanting you to pay $50 to buy there antivirus program. I some manual instructions on the internet to remove it, but .....