| How Climate Change is Destroying Cancun Beaches Simeon Tegel - GlobalPost | |
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Calamity Calling: Imagine a world without beaches (globalpost)
CANCUN, Mexico — Cancun’s perfect tropical beach is its principal selling point. Made from the remains of long-dead corals, 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 more than 1 billion gallons of sand from the seabed.
That was a response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Wilma in 2005, which overnight swept away eight miles of Cancun’s prime beach.
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