: an irregular limestone region with sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns
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Each hill and cave in Cambodia’s rocky karst landscape –– a term for a landscape created when rocks break down, forming large cave springs, sinking streams and sinkholes –– is isolated from the others.
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Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 23 Mar. 2026
The confirmation of the Khlong Hat bent-toed gecko underscores the ecological richness of eastern Thailand’s karst landscapes and highlights how much remains to be discovered even in areas already recognized as biodiversity hotspots.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
Animals living in these fragmented zones can evolve in relative isolation, which is one reason karst regions tend to produce discoveries like this one.
—Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2026
Unique to this project, Xcel Energy has also engaged a geological consultant to conduct an investigation of the project area’s geology and to develop a comprehensive karst management plan, including a response protocol if karst geologic features are encountered.
—Elliot Mann, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2025
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Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 23 Mar. 2026
The confirmation of the Khlong Hat bent-toed gecko underscores the ecological richness of eastern Thailand’s karst landscapes and highlights how much remains to be discovered even in areas already recognized as biodiversity hotspots.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
Animals living in these fragmented zones can evolve in relative isolation, which is one reason karst regions tend to produce discoveries like this one.
—Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2026
Unique to this project, Xcel Energy has also engaged a geological consultant to conduct an investigation of the project area’s geology and to develop a comprehensive karst management plan, including a response protocol if karst geologic features are encountered.
—Elliot Mann, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2025
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Karst
geographical name
variants
or Kras
or Italian Carso
limestone plateau northeast of the Istrian Peninsula in western Slovenia extending into eastern Italy
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