Satellite images reveal a massive 5,000-mile seaweed belt stretching thousands of miles across the Atlantic

For centuries, sailors crossing the Atlantic occasionally encountered floating mats of brown seaweed drifting far from land.
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Seaweed is taking over coral reefs. But there’s a gardening solution – sea‑weeding

In the early 1990s, marine researchers in the Caribbean found something alarming. On reef after reef, corals were dying off – and seaweed was growing in their place. Since then, this pattern has been ...
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Shifting climate alters pattern of Atlantic’s giant seaweed blobs

In an image he provided, Sully Sullivan, a graduate student at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science, collected sea samples in the Atlantic in July 2024. A 5,500-mile blob of ...
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How to find Florida's seaweed-free beaches

In Florida, travelers can still find cleaner stretches of shoreline by choosing beaches along the Gulf Coast and using monitoring tools that track conditions.