The United Nations has recognized China-Cambodia joint research in the karst critical zone as a prime example of South-South ...

CHONGQING, Oct. 5 (Xinhua) -- "The school will have easy access to wells for getting drinking water in the future," teachers and students cheer at a primary school in Xiushan County of Chongqing, ...

JINAN -- China's first subway line passing through a karst spring area began operation on Saturday in Jinan city of East China's Shandong province, marking an engineering breakthrough that balances ...

It turns out that caves do a good job of providing significant answers. Those that contain animal fossils and records of ancient humans, for example, have been shown to have great value for ...

Based on the standards C(II)(III)(IV)(VI) for selecting world cultural heritage, the South China Karst was listed in the World Heritage List. Gallery The South China Karst covers 50,000 square ...

Aerial photo taken on Nov. 16, 2019 shows a newly discovered giant karst sinkhole in Napo County in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Photo provided to Xinhua) A team of multinational ...

The sinkhole is 630 ft (192 metres) deep, which means it could swallow all but about a dozen buildings in the UK. Last week, a group of scientists and spelunkers rappelled down into the pit, where ...

Tourists visit the Yaolin karst cave in Tonglu County, east China's Zhejiang Province, Aug. 25, 2019. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi) The magnificnet rock formations and wondrous landforms of the Yaolin karst ...

The huge karst area of South China is about 550,000 km2 in extent. The karst terrain displays a geomorphic transition as the terrain gradually descends about 2000 meters over 700 kilometers from the ...