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 ...

Uncover the awe-inspiring Furong Cave, hidden deep in the Wulong Karst National Geology Park, Chongqing. This massive cave ...

Cave explorers stumbled upon a prehistoric forest at the bottom of a giant sinkhole in South China earlier this month. Sinkholes such as these are also known in Chinese as Tiankeng, or "Heavenly pit." ...

See the related National Geographic magazine “Empire of Rock” feature story, 3-D cave tour, and 3:30-minute video from the July 2014 edition. This expedition was supported with a grant from the ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Xinglong karst cave in north China's Hebei Province is a large limestone rock formation estimated to be one billion to 1.4 billion years old. An area of about 5,000 square meters has been detected ...

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

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 ...