And unlike many ... sinkhole requires that a void form from below. While sinkholes can open up gradually or rapidly, sometimes swallowing buildings or vehicles and even causing deaths in China ...

Researchers reportedly claim that plants grow faster in ancient forests located within China's isolated and dark sinkholes, possibly due to elements ... collapsed building over a sinkhole at ...

Plants growing at the bottom of giant sinkholes in China are so awash in nutrients, they grow faster than their surface-dwelling counterparts, all while using less of a fundamental building block ...

BEIJING--A bus plunged into a sinkhole on a city ... of Qinghai province, one of China’s poorest regions, sitting atop the Tibetan Plateau. The expedited building of roads, tunnels, bridges ...

An expanding sinkhole in West Virginia is threatening to swallow a police department building ... a sidewalk in Dazhou, China on October 7, 2018. Two people died due to the collapse, according ...

The couple stands on the edge of the sheer limestone cliff. More than 100 metres (328ft) beneath them is a lost world of ancient forests, plants and animals. All they can see is leafy tree tops ...

A huge ancient forest world has been discovered 630 feet underground, down a sinkhole in China. The underground ... The forest was able to grow due to the shape of the hole, allowing enough ...

Tiankeng are enormous sinkholes — hundreds of meters deep — hidden among the jagged karst mountains that cover much of western China. Many of these sites have lain untouched for hundreds of thousands, ...

The Drum Tower in Fengyang County, which dates to the 14th century, is one of many historical sites that have been renovated as cultural tourism has boomed.