Mexico's seashores are being overrun with sargassum, a brown malodorous algae.
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Authorities on Mexico’s Caribbean coast are battling an “alarming” invasion of foul-smelling brown algae, which has piled up on the area’s seashores.
The algae, often called sargassum, is washing up on the shores of white, sandy seashores simply as vacationers start to return to the nation following the pandemic, in response to a an ABC Information report.
“We will say the present state of affairs is alarming,” stated Navy Secretary José Ojeda, who has been main operations to collect sargassum at sea, earlier than it hits the seashores.
The Navy at the moment has 11 sargassum-collecting boats within the Caribbean.
A lot algae is reaching the seashores that resorts and native authorities are reportedly utilizing bulldozers and backhoes to gather the seaweed-like plant.
The massive equipment additionally picks up sand and contributes to seaside erosion, stated Rosa Rodríguez Martínez, a biologist within the beachside city of Puerto Morelos who research reefs and coastal ecosystems for Mexico’s Nationwide Autonomous College.
“There's a lot sargassum that you would be able to’t use small-scale gear anymore, you must use the heavy stuff, and when the excavators are available, they take away extra sand,” she informed the information outlet.
Specialists worry that the present sargassum accumulation may prime information set in 2018.
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