Over millennia, this builds up within weird cave structures known as speleothems, which protrude from every surface where water flows, including stalagmites on the cave floor and stalactites on ...

Using the bottom of the bridge like monkey bars, these guys slowly make their way across until at the very end when one of ...

Where a stalagmite is fed by a substantial amount of long-lived stored water, candlestick-shaped stalagmites may result: this stored water means that these stalagmites may have a damped influence ...

South-west Australia relies on groundwater for three-quarters of its water use. But a new study of the region’s caves has found a drying climate is having a dramatic impact on this precious ...

Stalagmites that formed in caves hundreds of thousands of years ago preserve a record of how fires behaved the last time Earth’s temperatures were as high as they are today. New Scientist ...

Famous for its stalactites, rare geological formations and cures for asthma, Ballıca Cave in Turkey's northern Anatolian province of Tokat attracts thousands of visitors every year. Listed on ...