Researchers Work to Unlock Secrets in Yucatan's Underground Rivers Wes Holt and Glenda Swiney - The Daily News
go to original December 10, 2013

Cancun is America's Bali. It's loud and brash and party-central. But under all those stomping feet is the spectacular silence and epic grandeur of the pristine Yucatan Aquifer, described by some as the world's largest underground river - and environmentalists are deeply concerned about it's future. (ABC News)

Scientific teams from Texas A&M University at Galveston and the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City are working jointly to explore and investigate the Ox Bel Ha System, the world’s longest underwater cave, which extends across 150 miles in very remote areas away from tourists.

With a funded cooperative research grant from Texas A&M and CONACyT — the Mexican National Science Foundation — this binational project combines the research of professors and students from both universities.

Tom Iliffe, marine biology professor at TAMUG, feels that pressure on the fragile ecosystems of the Yucatán Peninsula because of rapid, extensive development for tourism could become an environmental disaster.

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