Sinkholes
Sinkholes are cavities that form when water erodes easily dissolved, or soluble, rock located beneath the ground surface. Water moves along joints, or fractures, enlarging them to form a cha...
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Sinkholes
Sinkholes are one of the main landforms in karst topography, so named for the region in Yugoslavia where solution features such as caves, caverns, disappearing streams and hummocky terrain...
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A giant sinkhole swallowed a stretch of street on Mexico City's east side, with one man feared dead and 30 families evacuated, authorities said Monday.Even in a city where historic buildings regula...
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A sinkhole swallowed two unoccupied cars Wednesday morning after rushing water from a main break undermined the road, police said.The sinkhole opened under the end of a busy bridge, which officials...
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Giant road signs at the entrance to this village warned that the ground could give way any time. And then I heard rumbling. Farmers waved their arms and shouted furiously at me to stop my car.It wa...
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Rescue crews Tuesday resumed their efforts at a collapsed Sao Paulo subway station construction site to retrieve a minibus trapped under tons of earth and rubble for three days.Relatives of the fiv...
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Scientists hope to learn more about what the Great Lakes' shorelines looked like about 10,000 years ago. They explored a limestone land bridge that went from Alpena to Goderich, Ontario _ a distanc...
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A pair of cave divers said Monday they have found subterranean passages in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula that constitute the world's longest underwater cave system.British cave diver Steve Bogaerts sa...
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U.S. researchers have begun testing an underwater robot at a Mexican sinkhole lake as part of a NASA-funded project to develop techniques for exploring possible signs of life on other planets.The b...
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