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Tons Of Sargassum Could Again Spoil Vacations - Videos From The Weather Channel
- In 2025, the Mexican Navy led Operation Sargassum deploying 13 maritime units to collect over 4,236 tons of sargassum off Quintana Roo's coast.
- This intensified effort followed record sargassum blooms since 2011 caused mainly by ocean changes, prompting coordinated state, municipal, and volunteer responses.
- The operation installed 7,545 meters of containment barriers and engaged over 500 personnel to intercept seaweed early and manually clean beaches daily.
- Governor Lezama explained that sargassum is an inherent occurrence in the ocean whose movements are difficult to predict, influenced by elements like sea currents, wind conditions, and the availability of nutrients in the water.
- The success of the strategy highlights ongoing naval commitment and regional cooperation, while a specialized treatment plant is planned to address continuing impact on tourism and ecosystems.
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The macroalgae pelagic sargassum is abundant in the Sargasso Sea, but since 2011, a recurrent Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt (GASB) has been observed on beaches and in satellite imagery, often extending from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico. Millions of tons of sargassum make their way across the Caribbean each year, pushing coastal ecosystems toward collapse. This brownish wave of macroalgae covers the region’s white beaches and blue waters, mo…
Seven years ago, 522,000 tons of sargazo arrived on Mexican beaches, a historic figure. The specialists Lorenzo Álvarez and Brigitta Ine Van, researchers from the Academic Unit of Reef Systems of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Limnology (ICMyL) of UNAM warned that this year the arrival of the sargazo could exceed the historical peak of 2018. Scientists made this forecast after observing, via satellite, that a large belt of these algae adva…
Tons Of Sargassum Could Again Spoil Vacations - Videos from The Weather Channel
Scientists are trying to figure out what’s causing a record amount of sargassum seaweed to pile up across the Caribbean. From Puerto Rico to Guyana, tourists and residents are being kept away from beaches by the stinking seaweed that can cause breathing problems and skin rashes. Watch this video to see how some islands are trying to tackle the problem that could cripple tourism. - Videos from The Weather Channel
The amount of sargaso on the beaches will have an increase of up to 40 percent during 2025, which is why it is expected a complicated summer on the coasts of Quintana Roo, alerted the academic of the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research of UNAM, Leticia Durand Smith. At the Inter-Institutional Seminar Entangled Nature, Culture and Society, of the Peninsular Center in Humanities and Social Sciences, based in Mérida, Yucatán, it is estim…
This macroalga presents erratic behavior that depends on climate changes, marine currents and even seasons of tropical storms and hurricanes Read
Brown algae of the genus Sargassum are currently storming the beaches in the Caribbean. Why the size of the algae bloom is increasing.
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