Limestone Pavements are bare limestone rock surfaces composed of slabs of rock (clints), separated by variable-width vertical cracks (grikes) . These grikes have developed by weathering and enhanced ...

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 ...

Isolated and inhospitable, this huge collection of razor-sharp vertical rocks looks like the last place where wildlife would thrive. The colossal 'Grand Tsingy' landscape in western Madagascar is the ...

To Jeffrey Wolin, the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center in New York City represent the limestone ”landscapes” of mountains moved by men in the stone quarries of southern Indiana. Wolin, a ...

A natural opening in the rock which is large enough to be entered by a person and extends to points where daylight does not penetrate. Underground rivers dissolve the limestone and carry it away to ...

Hewn ruthlessly from the earth by water over 270million years, these stone structures are a testament to the power of the natural world. The pillars, arches and columns rise hundred of feet into the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Visitors won’t be able to take a splash inside Hamilton Pool during Memorial Day weekend. Travis County Parks closed down the beautiful watering hole for the foreseeable future due to ...

Unique to Ninh Binh Province, rock moss or "dun da" is a rare, seasonal delicacy with a crisp texture and cooling taste, found only after summer rains on the province’s rugged limestone mountains.