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A massive belt of seaweed from the Sargasso Sea is headed toward Florida and the Caribbean. Here's how it may affect the area.

A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean is expected in the next few months to wash onto beaches in the Caribbean Sea, South Florida, and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt — as the biomass stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico is called — contains scattered…

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

Blooms of sargassum seaweed are inundating island nations in the Caribbean, leaving a host of questions in their wake.

The dipole factor in summer monsoon rainfall Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The study examined monsoons under three dipole conditions from 1961 to 2003. Photo: K.K. Mustafah   | Photo Credit: K_ K_ Mustafah The Indian summer monsoon rainfall is influenced by a system of oscillating sea surface temperatures known as the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) in which the western Indian Ocean becomes alternately warmer and then colder than the eastern part of the ocean. While the existence of three types of IOD is well known, a recent study published in the journal Natural Hazards attempts to determi...