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Shifting climate alters pattern of Atlantic’s giant seaweed blobs

In an image he provided, Sully Sullivan, a graduate student at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science, collected sea samples in the Atlantic in July 2024. A 5,500-mile blob of ...
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A 5,500-mile seaweed monster is taking over the Atlantic as climate chaos fuels explosive sargassum growth

Sargassum is spreading rapidly across the Atlantic, reshaping coastlines and worrying many communities. Normally helpful to ocean life, it has recently grown to record levels in some areas while ...
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Playful whales can use seaweed as a hat – or exfoliant. This “kelping” behaviour is more common than we realised

Olaf Meynecke receives funding from a private charitable trust as part of the Whales & Climate Research Program and is the CEO of Humpbacks & High-rises Inc If you’re a whale, there’s often not too ...
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Shifting climate alters pattern of Atlantic’s giant seaweed blobs

A 5,500-mile blob of seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean that has menaced beaches across the Caribbean and Florida in recent years is exploding in size, while a second patch farther north is declining ...