Deadly bat fungus found in New Mexico caves. Here's what we know about white nose syndrome. Adrian Hedden. Carlsbad Current-Argus ...

New Mexico’s favorite tourist attraction, after a few years of declining visitors, is booming again. The number of visitors in the first three months of 2002 increased 15.6 percent over the same ...

How a discarded bag of Cheetos is threatening a cave’s delicate ecosystem, home to bats and insects. Staff at Caverns National Park in New Mexico scorned the unknown visitor and warned how the ...

CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK, N.M. — There’s nothing like bats to draw a crowd to the scorching Chihuahuan Desert in the late summer heat. Several hundred people, myself and my son included ...

It turns out that before Carlsbad Caverns was classified as a National Park, it was a mine. The miners there were seeking guano, or bat dung, which was sold to be used as fertilizer.

Here’s what we know about white nose syndrome and the threat it poses to bats in New Mexico. A deadly fungus threatening bat populations across the country has been discovered in two New Mexico ...

A deadly fungus threatening bat populations across the country has been discovered in two New Mexico caves. More: Feds taking action against fungal disease that is pushing bats to extinction in ...