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The American bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana is an invasive species in Mexico. Invasive species in Mexico are a major cause of biodiversity loss, [1] altering ecosystems, affecting native species, damaging environmental services and public health, and causing economic losses. [2]
This decreasing pH is another issue for coral reefs. [6] Ocean surface pH is estimated to have decreased from about 8.25 to 8.14 since the beginning of the industrial era, [69] and a further drop of 0.3–0.4 units is expected. [70] This drop has made it so the amount of hydrogen ions have increased by 30%. [71]
A sargassum bloom floats between the Gulf of Mexico and West Africa. The seaweed can choke corals, wreak havoc on coastal ecosystems and diminish air quality.
Seaweed species such as kelps provide essential nursery habitat for fisheries and other marine species and thus protect food sources; other species, such as planktonic algae, play a vital role in capturing carbon and producing at least 50% of Earth's oxygen. [3] Natural seaweed ecosystems are sometimes under threat from human activity.
Sargassum is a genus of brown macroalgae in the order Fucales of the Phaeophyceae class. [1] Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and coral reefs, and the genus is widely known for its planktonic (free-floating) species.
On August 14, 1983, at La Paz, Baja California Sur, the United States and Mexico entered into the United States–Mexico Agreement on Cooperation for the Protection and Improvement of the Environment in the Border Area, known as the La Paz Agreement. [3] The agreement aims to protect and conserve the environment along the border.
The brown seaweed is expected to start piling up in the Florida Keys in the next few days, with Miami Beach slated to become a hot spot later in the sargassum season, which runs from March through ...
The U.S. has issued a travel warning for Mexico ahead of spring break. The U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Mexico posted a range of potential threats for Americans traveling to the country, including ...