Can Cancun Save Its Legendary Beach? Associated Press
go to original January 14, 2014

Beach recovery in Cancun - Time-lapse (amaldo0)

Cancun’s perfect tropical beach is its principal selling point. Made from the remains of long-dead coral, it famously stays cool even on the most scorching days.

Yet the only reason the resort still has a beach is thanks to a $70-million project in 2010 to replenish it by dredging up about four billion liters of sand from the seabed.

... Since the project — which vacuumed up sand from the seabed of a proposed marine reserve off Cozumel Island — the renewed beach erosion is clear for all to see.

The sand drops steeply at the high-tide point. And a few meters out to sea, there are undertows swirling around sinkholes in the sand that keep local lifeguards on their toes.

Now, as scientists predict an acceleration of climate change’s impacts, Cancun is at a crossroads.

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