More sections of Shibing's karst landform, in Shibing county, Guizhou province, were officially added to UNESCO World Heritage List on June 23 at the ongoing 38th World Heritage Convention held in ...

The discovery of a new type of taller and slenderer columnar Karst landscape has been disclosed by Hubei Geological Sciences Research Institute on Wednesday at Kanzi Mountain in Yunxi County, central ...

NANNING, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- In Yangshuo, a county under the administration of Guilin City in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, rugged limestone towers thrust upward like the fingers of ...

For thousands of years, karst landforms and particularly karst depressions like dolines, for example, have been important sites of human husbandry. There is evidence from as far back as the 2nd ...

When the magnitude 6.9 earthquake devastated Northern Cebu on Sept. 30, an invisible geological hazard violently surfaced: ...

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 ...

Right in the middle of the Qatari peninsula, a large chasm suddenly yawns open from the rocky desert, plummeting some 100 meters down into the earth. It’s an impressive sight – whether you’re standing ...