Por: CBS News Nation March 14, 2023
Huge seaweed bloom making its way to South Florida shores A giant blob of seaweed is floating toward the West Coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. The mass is known as sargassum – what is it, and what happens as it reaches the coast? What is sargassum?Sargassum is a brown seaweed that floats in large masses, . The seaweed, which is a type of algae, never reaches the floor of the ocean because it has berry-like bubbles called pneumatocysts,... + full article
10 WBNS USA Nation March 23, 2023
WASHINGTON — 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... + más
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Forbes USA Business March 22, 2023
Topline Officials in Florida are preparing for a 5,000-mile floating island of seaweed called the sargassum belt to make its way on shore, where it’s expected to become both a nuisance and a health hazard as it rots. Beaches on Barbados were smothered in sargassum last... + más
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WPLG Local 10 USA Nation March 22, 2023
WASHINGTON – 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... + más
Associated Press USA Science March 22, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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... + más
ABC News USA Tech March 22, 2023
WASHINGTON -- 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... + más
Portland Press Herald USA World March 14, 2023
Long Beach is covered with sargassum in Crest Church parish along the south coast of Barbados in July 2022. Sargassum could start piling up in the Florida Keys in the next few days. Kofi Jones/Associated Press MIAMI — A giant blob of seaweed, spanning 5,000 miles and weighing... + más
Newsweek USA World March 13, 2023
A 5,000-mile-wide swarm of seaweed may be slowly creeping across the ocean toward Florida.The enormous mat of seaweed, measuring twice the size of the contiguous United States (New York City to Los Angeles, California is 2,445 miles), is the result of a huge bloom of sargassum... + más
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