In two recent papers, Saint Louis University researchers report finding high concentrations of microplastics present in a Missouri cave system that had been closed to human visitors for 30 years.

Researchers report finding high concentrations of microplastics present in a Missouri cave system that had been closed to human visitors for 30 years. In two recent papers, Saint Louis University ...

Conditions have improved, but that could all change if rain returns. Decreasing water levels and relatively dry weather over the past few days have created more favorable conditions for evacuating the ...

The cave was completely flooded, hiding whatever lay beneath the surface. After pumping out more than 60,000 gallons of water ...

Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula hides Sistema Ox Bel Ha, the world's longest explored underwater cave system, stretching over 524 km. Formed by dissolving limestone, this vast network, rich in freshwater, ...

It was November 17, 1991, and it was finally time for their exploration of the Indian Springs cave system near Tallahassee, Florida. Conditions were close to perfect—the temperature was a cool 59 ...

MAE SAI, Thailand — Rain continued to fall and water levels kept rising Wednesday inside a cave in northern Thailand, frustrating the search for 12 boys and their soccer coach who have been missing in ...

Water rushed in and submerged the cave just hours after the boys were saved. Just hours after a boys soccer team was rescued from a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand, water rushed back into the ...

HORSE CAVE, Ky. (CBSMiami/AP) — The 19 tourists who were trapped in a Kentucky cave have waded through neck-deep water to get out, said authorities. Gary Russell was a mile deep in a Kentucky cave, ...

The main pump draining water from the Tham Luang cave complex stopped working shortly after the last member of the soccer team was saved. Some 100 rescue workers were still in the flooded cave when it ...

A well-kept secret of the Acropolis is a cave hiding an ancient Asclepius temple with a spring of holy water, as later Christians believed.

A tour boat capsized inside an Erie Canal water cave near Niagara in upstate New York on Monday morning, leaving one person dead and 11 others injured Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE ...