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On Mexico’s Caribbean coast, mountains of sargassum seaweed raise a growing stink

In once-paradisical beach towns like Playa del Carmen, Tulum and Xcalak, this year appears on track to be worse than even the peak sargassum year of 2018.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 30, 2022

On Mexico's Caribbean coast, mountains of seaweed grow

The mounds of smelly sargassum seaweed piling up off Mexico’s Caribbean coast may have had only a localized impact on tourism, but for the people who have to scrape it off beaches with pitchforks, it has become a nightmare, and possibly a health threat

The Independent UK · Aug 30, 2022