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Evidence of Past Southern Hemisphere Rainfall Cycles Related to Antarctic Temperatures
January 17, 2012 — Geoscientists have published the first evidence that warm-cold climate oscillations well known in the Northern Hemisphere over the most recent glacial period also appear as tropical rainfall ... > full story -
Scientists Find Microbes in Lava Tube Living in Conditions Like Those on Mars
December 15, 2011 — A team of scientists from Oregon has collected microbes from ice within a lava tube in the Cascade Mountains and found that they thrive in cold, Mars-like conditions. They have characteristics that ... > full story -
How Bats 'Hear' Objects in Their Path
November 28, 2011 — By placing real and virtual objects in the flight paths of bats, scientists have shed new light on how echolocation works. The researchers found that it is not the intensity of the echoes that tells ... > full story -
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
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