Loads of seaweed are threatening the Caribbean's sea life and tourism. Experts say we may be to blame
CANCUN, Mexico - Each morning along Mexico's iconic Caribbean coast, workers with pitchforks ready themselves for another day of war against seaweed.
They haul it off the beach with plastic bags, tanker trucks and small tractors that rumble back and forth in front of sunbathing tourists. By the next morning, new heaps of seaweed have washed ashore and begun to decay - emitting a stench of rotten eggs - and the war starts anew.
This was not what Aymara Flores had promised her two children when she booked a vacation at a luxury Cancun resort.
"I always tell them Cancun is so beautiful, but it's not the same now," said Flores, 37, an executive from the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, who found it
