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Controversy Over Reopening the 'Sistine Chapel' of Stone Age Art
October 26, 2011 — Plans to reopen Spain's Altamira caves are stirring controversy over the possibility that tourists' visits will further damage the 20,000-year old wall paintings that changed views about the ... > full story -
Genetic Study of Cave Millipedes Reveals Isolated Populations and Ancient Divergence Between Species
October 17, 2011 — Cave millipedes of the genus Tetracion are found on the southern Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee and Alabama, USA. New genetic analyses show that their populations are generally isolated and ... > full story -
Health Fears Over CO2 Storage Are Unfounded, Study Shows
September 12, 2011 — Capturing carbon dioxide from power stations and storing it deep underground carries no significant threat to human health, despite recently voiced fears that it might, a new study shows. Researchers ... > full story -
Separated for 20 Million Years: Blind Beetle from Bulgarian Caves Clarifies Questions
July 13, 2011 — One of the smallest ever cave-dwelling ground beetles has recently been discovered in two caves in the Rhodopi Mountains, Bulgaria, and described under the name Paralovricia beroni. The beetle is ... > full story -
Darkness Stifles Reproduction of Surface-Dwelling Fish
May 10, 2011 — There's a reason to be afraid of the dark. Fish accustomed to living near the light of the water's surface become proverbial "fish out of water" when they move to dark environments like those found ... > full story -
Caves and Their Dripstones Reveal the Uplift of Mountains
May 2, 2011 — Geologists from Austria and the UK report on ancient cave systems discovered near the summits of the Allgäu Mountains that preserved the oldest radiometrically dated dripstones currently known ... > full story -
Tourism Does Not Harm All Caves, Study Suggests
April 11, 2011 — Unlike the situation in other caves, damage caused by tourists at the Aguila cave in Avila, Spain is "imperceptible", despite it receiving tens of thousands of visitors each year, according to new ... > full story -
Food Forensics: DNA Links Habitat Quality to Bat Diet
March 3, 2011 — All night long, bats swoop over our landscape consuming insects, but they do this in secret, hidden from our view. Until recently, scientists have been unable to bring their ecosystem out of the dark ... > full story -
Storm-Chasing Weather Radar Used to Track Bat Populations
February 18, 2011 — Scientists are using mobile storm-chasing radars to follow swarms of bats as they emerge from their caves each night to forage on ... > full story -
Culling Can't Control Deadly Bat Disease, Mathematical Model Shows
February 14, 2011 — Culling will not stop the spread of a deadly fungus that is threatening to wipe out hibernating bats in North America, according to a new mathematical ... > full story
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