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Scientists using NASA satellite observations have discovered the largest bloom of macroalgae in the world.
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" Barnes said the mass of seaweed appears to be increasing each year, but 2018 and 2022 had the largest accumulations.
May 18, 2023 · Since 2011, Sargassum, free-living populations of brown macroalga, have been rapidly expanding in the Sargasso Sea and other parts of the open ocean such as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.
. The paper, “The great Atlantic Sargassum belt” was published in Science in July 2019 and describes a “floating mat” of Sargassum species. .
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Once it. The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, as it’s known, is visible from space, stretching like a sea monster across the ocean, with its nose in the Gulf of Mexico and its tail in the mouth of the Congo.
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Brown in the tropical Atlantic are taking advantage of the ship’s long-planned path through the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt to take some of the first.
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Scientists aboard a U. found a belt of the algae blanketing the tropical Atlantic Ocean from the west coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico (imaging by Joshua Stevens). https://nationalgeographic. A giant, rotting mass of seaweed threatens beach season in the U. .
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“I think I’ve replaced my climate change anxiety with sargassum anxiety,” says Patricia Estridge, CEO of Seaweed Generation, a UK startup. According to a report in NBC News, the raft of brown seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean is so vast that it can be seen from space.
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The year 2013 was the lone exception (likely suppressed by high ocean-surface temps).
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