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The Florida House today passed SB 7050, yet another in a string of laws designed to make it harder to cast a ballot in Florida.

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On beaches where it begins to rot, decompose, it leaches out a lot of chemistry and the water, high ammonia concentrations around that and hydrogen sulfide, a toxic gas and it's a human health risk if you're in an area where there's a lot of this breathing that air and i think you experienced that in belize. so people need to be wary of that but also as this plant sees more nitrogen, we are tracking its tissue chemistry. and the amount of arsenic seems to be quite high in this. and we -- so again, if you're somewhere where you're harvesting this to use as fertilizer to repurpose it and use it ...

The tropical atlantic formed and in 2018, it reached its maximum extent of extending all the way from the coast of africa, around the gulf of guinea across the tropical atlantic, through the caribbean, into florida area, that's 850 kilometers. at that point we realized this is the largest algae bloom on earth. we've been studying it. it's varied a little bit from year-to-year. 2001 we did not see the sargassum belt form. it doubled this year from december to january, based on the satellite imagery, that's how we track it. and we have sampled some of this

Forms these large pungent blooms. could be the largest of these massive fields of floating blobs on record. and scientists are worried about the impact it may have once it does reach the shoreline. >> brian is a biologist at florida atlantic university, has spent his career studying and swimming in this. thanks for coming on. thanks for taking the time. >> thanks for having me. >> as you explained before the show, this has a good function for some fish species, they can live in it and eat. but this is huge, 5,000 miles wide. what caused it and is that a bad sign? >> it's what we say, too much ...