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 …
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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 …
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 …