A giant seaweed blob so large in can be seen from space is threatening to transform beaches along Florida’s Gulf coast into a brown morass, scientists say.
A giant seaweed blob so large it can be seen from space is threatening to transform beaches along Florida’s Gulf coast into a brown morass, scientists say.
Cleaning on the main beach in the center of Playa del Carmen in Mexico, covered with sargassum seaweed.LaPointe said massive piles typically wash ashore in South Florida in May, but the algae are already inundating beaches in Key West. “Before 2011, it was there but we couldn’t observe it with satellites because it wasn’t dense enough,” Barnes told NBC News. “Since then, it has just exploded and we now see these huge aggregations.”
“You have the Congo, the Amazon, the Orinoco, the Mississippi — the largest rivers on the planet, which have been affected by things like deforestation, increasing fertilizer use and burning biomass,” LaPointe told the outlet.“All of that is increasing the nitrogen concentrations in these rivers and so we’re now seeing these blooms as kind of a manifestation of the changing nutrient cycles on our planet,” he said.
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