As the summer quickly comes to an end, and students return back to school, Florida beachgoers are breathing a sigh of relief that their last days on the beach this season were essentially sargassum free this year. This comes after what was a frustrating season last year when recording breaking levels of sargassum ruined vacations …
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Powered by the Visa Foundation, the NGO Mayma Mexico developed the project “Regenerating Blue Communities: Promoting Business Solutions Beyond Sustainability in the Coastal Socio-ecosystem of Quintana Roo” to identify business opportunities arising from sargassum use. Between Nov. 2023 and Jun. 2024, the organization found 85 projects working on initiatives to capitalize on the seaweed washing …
Following the Riviera Maya Hotel Association’s intention to disengage from the financial burden of cleaning up sargassum, a total of eight municipalities in the Mexican Caribbean have pledged to its effective removal and disposal until December 15, 2024. Municipalities committed to cleaning up to 100 popular beaches include Cozumel, Solidaridad, Isla Mujeres, Benito Juárez, Tulum, …
Sargassum crisis has caught Caribbean governments on the wrong foot. After struggling with it for 13 years now, only cosmetic solutions have been provided. Authorities have become efficient at collecting algae in the open sea and quickly removing them from beaches so tourists don’t see their perfect Instagram pictures ruined. But it’s about time to …
Mexico has been dealing with sargassum inundation events for almost a decade. This season, famous beaches across Quintana Roo have been covered by algae due to a combination of environmental factors. But that’s about to stop, authorities have announced. According to Jesús Amaro, a hydrobiologist who chairs the Environmental Monitoring and Climate Change Network of …
Beryl made landfall as a category-two hurricane on Friday in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula after passing through some Caribbean countries, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Although the hurricane brought heavy rains and strong winds to Cancun and Tulum, no important damages were reported. Only fallen palm trees and a flood in the hotel zone. …
Tourists hate sargassum. It’s a brown, ugly macroalgae that washes up on the shores of the Mexican Caribbean. Left too long in the sun and it starts to emit quite the funky odor. On the east side of the Mexican Caribbean, the beach authorities spend millions to block the sargassum coming to the shores of …
The Dominican Republic Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MESCyT) has allocated 1.2 million US dollars to fight the growth of the sargassum seaweed on its beaches. The funding is provided through the National Fund for Scientific Development and Technological Innovation (Fondocyt). The project is designed to work with local and international agencies to …
Despite significant sargassum landfalls observed over the last few weeks, the Mexican Caribbean will be algae-free in a couple of weeks, say authorities. As of today, concentrations of macroalgae on beaches are very low and no more are coming, according to experts. The remaining algae will finish arriving during the first week of July. Satellite …
Sargassum season in the Dominican Republic has not been as shocking this year as it has been in other Caribbean destinations, such as some parts of Mexico. However, the D.R. forecast is about to change, according to the latest satellite images revealed by South Florida University’s Optical Oceanography Laboratory. This institution gathers scientists and engineers …