Tag: Caves and Caverns

Chevron and others are building an underground hydrogen battery in Utah.

Outside Delta, a one-stoplight town in the scrublands of central Utah, a giant battery is taking shape underground. Two caverns, each as deep as the Empire State Building is tall, are being created from a geological salt formation, using water to dissolve and remove the salt. When completed next year, the caverns will be able […]

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What to Do With a Bug Named Hitler?

Anophthalmus hitleri was discovered in the former Yugoslavia on June 20, 1932, four months after the Austrian-born Hitler became a German citizen and four days before he demanded, as leader of the Nazi Party, that the government declare martial law throughout the country. The discoverer, a naturalist named Vladimir Kodric, stumbled on the insect in […]

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Hunter-Gatherers Were Making Baskets 9,500 Years Ago, Researchers Say

Hunter-gatherer societies on the Iberian Peninsula were making sophisticated baskets with decorative geometric patterns 9,500 years ago, more than 2,000 years earlier than previously thought, researchers in Spain have reported. The researchers also said that sandals that were found in the same cave as the baskets represent the “earliest and most diverse set of plant-based […]

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Rescuers Blast Open Passages to Extract Sick American From Cave in Turkey

Efforts to extract an American explorer who became ill more than 3,400 feet underground in a cave in southern Turkey expanded on Friday, as international rescue teams installed communications equipment and blasted open narrow areas to allow the passage of a stretcher, officials involved in the rescue said. The caver, Mark Dickey, 40, was part […]

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