Florida beaches could be covered in record seaweed blob this summer
It's too early to say for sure whether Florida will get hit by a sargassum bomb this summer but that's been the case during past heavy bloom years.
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It's too early to say for sure whether Florida will get hit by a sargassum bomb this summer but that's been the case during past heavy bloom years.
It's too early to say for sure whether Florida will get hit by a sargassum bomb this summer but that's been the case during past heavy bloom years.
In the wake of the hurricane, researchers at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (CMS) have been hard at work studying the storm’s impacts on the state. From high-resolution modeling to satellite imagery, these snapshots show our teams at work.
Seaweed covers the Atlantic shore in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts and Nevis, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. A record amount of seaweed is smothering Caribbean coas ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Near-record amounts of seaweed are smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados, killing fish and other wildlife, choking tourism and releasing stinky, noxious gases.