5,700 Years of Storms Reveal a Brewing Caribbean Crisis

A 30-meter sediment core extracted from the “Great Blue Hole” in Belize offers the longest continuous record of storm frequency in the Atlantic. In the shallow waters of the Lighthouse Reef Atoll, located 80 kilometers (50 miles) off the coast of Belize, the seafloor plunges steeply into a striking underwater formation. Known as the “Great [...]

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