Mexico struggling to deal with seaweed invading some of its Caribbean beaches
Mark Stevenson, Associated Press Published 10:21 a.m. ET June 28, 2019
MEXICO CITY — Mexico has spent $17 million to remove over a half-million tons of sargassum seaweed from its Caribbean beaches, and the problem doesn't seem likely to end any time soon, experts told an international conference Thursday.
The floating mats of algae seldom reached the famed beaches around Cancun until 2011, but they're now severely affecting tourism, with visitors often facing stinking mounds of rotting seaweed at the waterline.
Initial reports suggested the seaweed came from an area of the Atlantic off the northern coast of Brazil, near the mouth of the Amazon River. Increased nutrient flows from deforestation or fertilizer runoff could be feeding the algae bloom.
Read more at: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2019/06/28/mexico-beaches-country-struggles-solve-seaweed-invasion/1593664001/
At first, they were thinking Brazil but the story goes on to mention something about Congo, Africa!
