Belize's Great Blue Hole is one of Earth's most mysterious features. Now, scientists have discovered the natural oddity provides evidence of a concerning trend.

Did you know the Great Blue Hole in Belize is huge? It’s 318 meters (1,043 feet) wide and goes down 124 meters (407 feet). This amazing hole is part of the Belize Barrier Reef, a UNESCO site.

Tropical storms have been steadily increasing in frequency over the past 5,700 years, new evidence from sediment in the Great Blue Hole reveals, with a massive spike in the past two decades.

Location of the blue hole and images of it at (B) 16 feet deep, (C) 65 feet deep, and (D) 98 feet deep. Graphic: Alcérreca-Huerta et al., Front.Mar. Sci. 2024 “This evinces the needs of ...

The Great Blue Hole is a large marine sinkhole in the Caribbean Sea, some 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the coast of Belize. With a diameter of 318 meters (1,043 feet) and a depth of 124 meters ...

A team of scientists — including Virgin billionaire Richard Branson — has returned from a groundbreaking mission to the bottom of Belize’s Great Blue Hole with exciting findings.

Researchers took a sediment core from the Great Blue Hole sinkhole, situated about 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the coast of Belize, which revealed that tropical cyclones have increased in ...