The Xiaozhai Tiankeng stands as the textbook example of what happens when karst processes are given perfect working ...

China, the United States ... above a sandstone crater known as Buraco das Araras, or Sinkhole of the Macaws, within a deciduous forest near the town of Bonito. Typically considered a savanna ...

In early summer, 10 giant pandas at Yueyang China Panda Garden in Hunan province bask in the warm sunlight, eating and engaging in their playful antics that beckon numerous tourists and local ...

The Minnesota Wild were eliminated from the Stanley Cup Play-offs on May 1, and a giant sinkhole opened up on West Seventh Street — a block away from the Xcel Energy Center — exactly one week ...

Loose underground soil and light pieces of sand are prime candidates to be moved by water, and will often shift and move to fill gaps little by little. You may be wondering why it seems as though ...

When a sinkhole all but shut down a section of West Seventh Street last Thursday evening, St. Paul Public Works officials soon discovered they had their work cut out for them. Large enough for a ...

“We’ve lost 50% of our volumes toward the US since the start of this crisis.” The French shipping giant and rivals such as A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S are among companies that have been hit by President ...

Geologists colloquially call this the earth’s “plumbing system” — the complex network of underground drainage pathways that are a part of the water cycle. Human-caused sinkholes can force ...