One tourist’s carelessness in one of the planet’s most important underground caves revealed the enormous impact humans have on the ecosystem.

Rangers at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern New Mexico describe it as a “world-changing” event for the tiny microbes and insects that call this specialized subterranean environment home. The ...

Inside the huge cavern at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico, visitors are only allowed to consume plain water. However, a recent park visitor dropped an open bag of Cheetos, wreaking havoc ...

Park rangers spent 20 minutes carefully scraping off mould and microbial growth along the trail to the Big Room, the largest ...

A tourist inadvertently left behind a bag of chips in the main chamber of the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, causing a ...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) –Guano. If you look into the history of Carlsbad Caverns, you will most likely come across this term. In fact, some of the early visitors to the large underground cave system ...