Although caves and karst landscapes often serve as a destination for fourth grade field trips, they certainly have direct relevance to the 1.5 billion people who live in karst regions — many of whom ...

Corn and soy fields seem to take up vast swaths of Indiana’s land across the state, but Indiana is rich with varying landscapes and habitats. Some are easy to identify like forests, grasslands and ...

Fauna & Flora International (FFI) has made a habit of bucking the trend by working to safeguard neglected landscapes that are not necessarily a priority for other conservation organizations. Arguably ...

As they span significant areas of Asia, Europe and the Americas, karst landscapes cover some 15 percent of the Earth’s land mass. Scientists estimate that these areas of porous bedrock are home to as ...

South China Karst is one of the world’s most spectacular examples of humid tropical to subtropical karst landscapes. It is a serial site spread over the provinces of Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan and ...

These landscapes are like natural sculpture parks, with dramatic terrain dotted with caves and towers of bedrock slowly sculpted by water over thousands of years. Karst landscapes are beautiful and ...

Landscapes in Southeast Asia once thought to stifle biological evolution may instead stoke its fires. Karst ecosystems have been referred to as arks of biodiversity, a term that highlights their ...

THE cement industry and limestone extraction are inseparable, as the latter is an integral part in cement manufacturing. That said, Malaysia’s largest cement manufacturer, YTL Cement, is doing what it ...

1. Having examined Documents WHC-07/31.COM/8B and WHC-07/31.COM/INF.8B.2, 2. Inscribes the South China Karst, China, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (vii) and (viii): 3. Adopts the ...