The Daily Populous Friday June 27th, 2025 evening edition
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sixwax on June 26th, 2025 at 19:00 UTC »

For a few hundred more dollars per night, a hotel in Tulum will pay a local a few pesos to rake that stuff off the beach for you each morning!

joncaso on June 26th, 2025 at 19:07 UTC »

This is super common at most of the resorts at most of the beaches in the Gulf of Mexico. The nicest resorts will usually shovel it all the way with a bulldozer super early in the morning, but it's a regular occurrence.

I have anecdotally been told by people that work on these Resorts that it's only become a common occurrence in the last 15ish years and is generally believed to be caused by global warming.

WorstDogEver on June 26th, 2025 at 19:14 UTC »

It's apparently a really bad year for it!

> In April, the University of South Florida estimated this year’s bloom is already at 31 million tons — “40% more” than the previous record from June 2022, according to LaPointe.