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

The Sargassum Belt is 5,000 miles long and 3,000 miles wide of seaweed that develops in the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean.

Blooms of foul-smelling, health-threatening sargassum have been getting bigger and more damaging.

Seaweed bloom threatens Florida coastlines and Gulf of Mexico tourism News

Particularly using it for a food and fiber crop for human consumption. >> lots to watch out for. no question. brian lapointe thank you for joining. >> thank you. good morning. we are counting for you. you have just over two hours until your march madness bracket is due. just ahead what were watching for first round tipoffs come our way, one of the most exciting events of the year even if youre not a college basketball fan. stay with us, people. well help you with your last minute picksks. le f...

A giant seaweed bloom, visible from space, is heading toward Florida’s Gulf Coast and threatening to make it into a stinky, brown mess. The 5,000-mile-wide sargassum bloom — believed to be the largest...

A large piece of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, a massive growth of floating seaweed stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the African coast, has broken off and is floating towards the United States.

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

Experts warn this could be one of the biggest blooms in history.