Stories below the surface

Every article startsbeneath the surface

Geology, water and memory explained carefully, with visible sources and images that help you look beyond the surface.

Conceptual reconstruction

Hool Kosom, among swallows and traditions

01 / Water notebook

The story does not begin with a hole. It begins with rain, carbon dioxide and rock that looks solid until time proves otherwise.

02 / Water notebook

Beneath the Peninsula runs one of the largest freshwater systems on the planet, and every cenote is a window into it.

03 / Water notebook

Seen one by one they look scattered at random. Seen together, they trace the edge of a crater buried 66 million years ago.

04 / Water notebook

None of these pressures leaves a visible crater. They show up in the water, months or years later, once they are harder to reverse.

05 / Water notebook

A cenote does not take care of itself. Cooperatives, researchers and public agencies decide, day to day, how it is used and what gets protected.

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