Alan Jeffreys heads over to the American mid-West for an enjoyable underground murder romp in company with an appropriately named main character. Crime fiction searches high and low for interesting murder locations, and Maidens of ...

For anyone who has ever struggled to explain the allure of venturing underground, Paul Savage recommends taking awhistle-stop tour beneath the Highlands in the company of one of Scotland's best-known cavers. To say Alan Jeffreys ...

The latest edition of the BCRA’s Cave and Karst Science contains five papers, some shorter contributions and a photo spread. Maria Box and colleagues have been studying how Seasonal temperature and ventilation changes govern proxy-signal ...

The latest edition of the BCRA’s Cave and Karst Science contains four main papers. Lee Knight, Nataša Mori and Anton Brancelj have carried out a pilot study of the biota of percolating cave waters in ...

Alan Jeffreys couldn't put down the updated edition of Adventures Underground, and not because he'd accidentally glued it to his fingers ... The first edition of Adventures Underground first appeared in 2017, and was written ...

Descent is now 300 issues old. Founded in January 1969, it has outlasted the Beatles, the Apollo moon missions and pre-decimal currency and is now as strong as ever, thanks to everyone who has supported ...

This is the fourth and final volume of a set covering the caves, mines and associated features of the county of Somerset. Volume 1 was published in 2020 and features Bristol, Broadfield Down, the Bristol ...

Rob Hall reports on a very unusual book-signing event deep under Swaledale, and reviews “Rescued?” by Emmy Hoyes. On a visit to Kirkby Stephen one Easter, I recollect a member of the local Mountain Rescue ...

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 science of karst and management of aquifers. “Karst: Environment and ...

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 St. Pierre, John Wilcock and David William Gill. The editors ...

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 Burgess reviews the latest issue. Regular readers may have noticed ...

The next issue of Descent magazine is due out shortly. If you haven’t got a subscription, go to the link at the end of this article and set one up! It is also possible to ...