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Ongoing Cave Climate Data Collection in Australia

Back in 2020, in the depths of COVID lockdowns here in Australia, the Australasian Cave and Karst Management Association organised a cave climate 'baseline monitoring' project. At that time, numerous tourist caves were closed to visitors. The opportunity was taken to record the cave climate. Data loggers were calibrated and shipped to the participating cave organisations. They regularly sent back cave temperature and relative humidity data....

andy-baker.org/2025/07/20/ongo

Andy Baker · Ongoing Cave Climate Data Collection in Australia
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#caves#climate#ACKMA

Turning the globally significant Nullarbor’s limestone cave landscape into an industrial site with suburbs ?
“They put it slap-bang on the most intensively karstified area of the Nullarbor...This issue is not just about avoiding damage to a few caves. It’s about protecting the whole landscape.”
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theguardian.com/environment/20
#biodiversity #stillness #caves #megafauna #energy #Nullarbor

The Guardian · Scientists sound the alarm for Nullarbor’s fragile limestone caves and unique underground creaturesPar Petra Stock

Times like this I wish I had a cave of my own. So enjoy this throwback to a lava tube cave in California. I love how beautiful the passage is and yet since lava sucks up light (doesn't bounce it around well, just kinda absorbs it) the passages are dark and it looks like dark eyes staring into your soul.

#cave#caves#caving

Tiny #Moth Seen Navigating by The Stars in Scientific First sciencealert.com/tiny-moth-see

Bogong #moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night nature.com/articles/s41586-025

"When the warmer days of spring spread across the country, billions of #BogongMoths up stakes and fly, unerringly and only at night, up to 1,000 km to a place they have never been before: the cool #caves high in the #AustralianAlps... they use the starry sky without any additional cues to fly in that direction"