BBC5 年
Sargassum: The biggest seaweed bloom in the world
As of June 2018, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, as scientists call it ... out into the North Atlantic to float in the Sargasso Sea Forms rafts that serve as vital feeding and breeding grounds ...
2025 will likely be a ‘major’ seaweed year, experts say
Researchers in Florida used satellite imagery and found exceptionally high amounts of sargassum seaweed in the Atlantic ...
MercoPress5 年
The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt stretches 5.592 miles, fed with rich nutrients from farms ...
That was out at sea, however. “What happens out in the ... Scientists named it the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt (GASB). In 2015 and 2018, it stretched over nearly 5,592 miles.
BBC1 年
Sargassum: The seaweed deluge hitting Caribbean shores
Incoming rafts smother sea grasses and coral reefs ... developed a boat which collects it using a conveyor belt. Commercial uses of sargassum are also being explored. In St Lucia one entrepreneur ...
National Geographic news3 年
Life in the North Atlantic depends on this floating seaweed
Sargassum plants are a nuisance on some beaches, but they are a shelter and a feast for a complex and amazing variety of marine life. A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts ...
Could South Florida see a major seaweed event by spring 2025? Satellite imagery suggests so
When Dr. Dennis McGillicuddy fished with his grandfather in the waters off the coast of Miami, he said they looked for sargassum–because seaweed was a sign of life.  “Our objective was to find ...