Seaweed invasion threatens tourism in Mexico's beaches as problem worsens

Seaweed invasion threatens tourism in Mexico's beaches as problem worsens: Hotel occupancy rates have dropped as concern grows that the seaweed is threatening key industry in the Mayan Riviera.Trying to ignore the rotten-eggs whiff drifting in from the shoreline, a team of municipal workers was scooping up wads of rotting brown seaweed from the beach of this Mexican beach town 40km (25 miles) south of Cancún.