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What's driving the huge blooms of brown seaweed piling up on Florida and Caribbean beaches?

  • Written by Stephen P. Leatherman, Professor of Coastal Science, Florida International University
What's driving the huge blooms of brown seaweed piling up on Florida and Caribbean beaches?Mats of Sargassum seaweed off the coast of St. Martin in April 2018.ELY Michel CC BY-SA 4.0, , CC BY-SA

Here’s a handy geography question for your next trivia match: What is the world’s only sea that doesn’t have a land border?

The answer is the Sargasso Sea – a 2-million-square-nautical-mile haven of biodiversity that lies...

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