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The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is carrying a massive bloom of brown seaweed toward Florida and the Caribbean

  • Written by Stephen P. Leatherman, Professor of Coastal Science, Florida International University
The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is carrying a massive bloom of brown seaweed toward Florida and the CaribbeanSargassum seaweed started washing up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in mid-March 2023.Joe Raedle/Getty Images

An unwelcome visitor is headed for Florida and the Caribbean: huge floating mats of sargassum, or free-floating brown seaweed. Nearly every year since 2011, sargassum has inundated Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and Florida coastlines in warm...

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