Key West isn't known for its beaches ... In recent months, several visitors noted an abundance of sargassum (smelly seaweed). You'll find Smathers Beach on the southern shore of the island ...

“We need a Sargassum ... seaweed that has created “an international crisis” and “the greatest single threat” to the Caribbean, according to Vice Chancellor of the University of the West ...

Levels of floating seaweed mats have skyrocketed ... Barnes said that there is currently sargassum north of the Bahamas off the coast of South Florida, if it were to travel west toward Miami ...

Lapointe is talking about a floating seaweed ... sargassum’s virtues to a wider public have been derailed by the weed’s explosions in the Gulf, the Caribbean, Brazil, and even West Africa ...