An expedition to the bottom of the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize in Central America has returned with a cargo of worrying information. After studying a 30-meter (98-foot) sediment core ...

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The Great Blue Hole in Belize, a colossal sinkhole in the Caribbean, has become a focal point for new research, revealing a terrifying truth about the intensification of regional storms and the ...

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Blue holes, the name for collapsed limestone caves filled with sea water, also serve as important repositories for storm data due to sediments captured with in their low-oxygen bottom layers. A new ...