Brockport, N.Y. — Residents of two units were displaced Friday afternoon when an apartment basement wall collapsed as water broke through. Firefighters responded to the Winston Woods Townhouses ...

Bacteria color the water at a depth of 30 to 36 feet in ... We descend slowly along the cave's east wall until a triangular portal appears in our lights: the entrance to a 2,500-foot-long tunnel ...

One of the world's deepest and most dangerous caves lies in Abkhazia, a disputed part of Georgia. It takes days to get to the ...

An hour later we arrived at the mouth of Good Luck Cave, where a river emerged from a tall cleft in a wall of limestone. We waded in and pushed ahead, the clear warm water reaching first to our ...

With high carbon dioxide, low oxygen and no photosynthesis, here’s how an entire ecosystem persists in Movile Cave, one of the most extreme environments on Earth.

The fate of 40 Mississippian cave drawings in unknown after historic flooding at Dunbar Cave last month. The drawings are ...

But the caves formed due to the slow action of lake water, which dissolved minerals in the rocks until the walls crumbled. Researchers think this occurred over the past 10,000 to 15,000 years ...

tree roots above the caves create cracks and increase water seepage into the caves, which leads to wall painting and sculpture damage and eventual structural instability; humidity increase within the ...