For more than a decade, environmental activist Iwan Dento has opposed the mining of the limestone karst formations in his homeland of Maros, Indonesia. Until 2013, the karst mountain area of ...

Steven Poulton, Chief Executive of Altus, commented: "The drilling programme and seismic surveys at the Lakanfla project in western Mali have successfully proven the existence of a karst style system.

What better time to learn about and plan a visit to a cave than this year, dubbed the first ever International Year of Caves and Karst by the International Union of Speleology. Karst can be found ...

Sinkholes, often dramatic manifestations of karst geomorphology, result from the dissolution of soluble rock, such as limestone, dolomite, or evaporites, by naturally acidic groundwater. This process ...

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