Manila, April 6 -- An expedition to the bottom of the Great Blue Hole off the coast of Belize in Central America has returned with a cargo of worrying information, according to ScienceAlert.

After studying a 30-meter (98-foot) sediment core extracted from the sinkhole's floor, scientists discovered that tropical cyclones have increased in frequency over the last 5,700 years.

This trend is not only going to continue - it's going to reach a fever pitch driven by a changing climate.

"A total of 694 event layers were identified. They display a distinct regional trend of increasing storminess in the southwestern Caribbean, which follows an orbitally driven shift in the Intertropical Convergence Zone," writes a team led by geoscientist Domin...