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Newly-published Book – Karst: Environment and Management of Aquifers

Who isn’t tempted by a free book, especially when it’s about karst or caves? The Groundwater Project has just published a 300-page volume on the ...
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Descent 298: On The Shelves Soon

Descent 298 is due out on June 8th, so without further ado, here is what we can look forward to reading. In Newsdesk, there is ...
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GB Cavern, Mendip – Waterfall route re-opened

The Waterfall climb in GB Cavern, Somerset was closed in 2021 after a major rockfall. Following a recent inspection, Charterhouse Caving Company Ltd (CCC Ltd) ...
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Wells and Mendip Museum Exhibition: Out of Time: Underground Mendip

Wells and Mendip Museum plan to delve deep into the pioneering days of British caving in an exhibition that will run from 6th July to ...
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BCA: fee increase explained

Zac Woodford, the British Caving Association's new Publications and Information Officer, explains why BCA needs to raise membership fees and demonstrates why BCA still provides ...
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Cave and Karst Science Vol 51 No 1: Speleothems, Shrimps and Fungus

The latest edition of the BCRA’s Cave and Karst Science contains five main papers, and a photo feature. It begins, however, with tributes to David ...
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Descent 297: Caving Across the Globe

From tight and wet digs in Derbyshire, to the discovery of huge river caves in Indonesia, the latest issue of Descent covers it all. Peter ...
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Descent 297 coming soon!

Descent 297 is now being printed and should be available on 13th April. In Newsdesk, we have a report of ice caves found on a ...
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Somerset Rockfalls: Fairy Cave Quarry and Goatchurch Cavern

The entrance to Goatchurch Cavern with the recent rockfall on the left. Photo: Wayne Starsmore The wet winter of 2023/24 is probably the cause of ...
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NAMHO have released more details of their 2016 Conference. The 2016 NAMHO Conference is being hosted by the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland on the ...
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Hosted by the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland and (to be confirmed) takes place in Dublin 17th 19th June 2016 ...
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Andrew Hinde, the BCA Conservation Officer, has asked that attention is drawn to the CNCC’s new Digging Guidelines - How to get permission to dig ...
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From 13-20 August 2016 the European Speleological Federation meeting (‘Eurospeleo’) is coming to the Yorkshire Dales. The event is being jointly organised by BCA and ...
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