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A 5,000 mile swath of a smelly seaweed called sargassum could soon blanket beaches in Florida and the Caribbean. Whats going on?

Since 2011, a fleet of seaweed patches double the size of the contiguous U.S. has cycled from West Africa to Florida, threatening beaches from Martinique to Miami. This year, it could grow bigger.

Since 2011, a fleet of seaweed patches double the size of the contiguous U.S. has cycled from West Africa to Florida, threatening beaches from Martinique to Miami. This year, it could grow bigger.

Currently stretching across most of the Atlantic, the blob is traveling west, and will begin to pile up on beaches in the coming months. Get ready for some rotten egg stench.

Its too early to say for sure whether Florida will get hit by a sargassum bomb this summer but thats been the case during past heavy bloom years.

A gargantuan mass of seaweed that formed in the Atlantic Ocean is headed for the shores of Florida and other coastlines throughout the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump smelly

A top research professor says south Florida beaches will experience a massive bloom of pungent, brown seaweed washup on shores this year.

A monstrous 5,000-mile-wide mass of macroalgae called sargassum is making its way to Florida, but where it could end up is up still isn’t clear.

According to latest reports this year's bloom is particularly alarming.

Researchers say a 5,000-mile-long seaweed bloom stretching from the shores of West Africa to the Florida Keys could be the largest in history.