A Massive Seaweed Bloom Now Stretches Across the Atlantic Ocean

Yale e360
Jul 9, 2019, 2:37 pm211 pts
Scientists have discovered a massive seaweed bloom stretching across nearly the entire Atlantic Ocean, from the west coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico. The bloom, dubbed the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, first appeared in 2011 and has become an almost yearly occurrence, fueled in part by an influx of…

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