Continent sized seaweed Blob heading to Florida beaches!
Waste water pollution, burning of the Amazon, and Global warming to blame. Some sargassum has already reached beaches in Key West, said Chuanmin Hu, a professor of oceanography at the University of South Florida. But most of it will arrive in the summer, Hu said. “What is unusual this year compared to previous years is it started early,” Hu said. A giant wall of seaweed is coming to the shores of Florida, Mexico and the Caribbean over the summer. The matted brown seaweed stretches for miles across the ocean and provides breeding ground, food and habitat for fish, sea turtles and marine birds, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Then after 48 hours on the beach it rots and smells worse than volcanic ash and manure! It also causes headaches and breathing problems.
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