Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The smelly seaweed choking beaches across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico is sargassum, a brown algae that used to be largely confined to the Sargasso Sea. But now, it stretches for thousands of miles in what’s been named the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. Its massive growth is fueled by nutrient pollution from cattle ranching and farming in the Amazon River watershed. Like many of today’s most pressing environmental issues, its causes are complex and global, and solutions that don’t address the root of the problem are bound to fail.
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The smelly seaweed choking beaches across the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico is sargassum, a brown algae that used to be largely confined to the Sargasso Sea. But now, it stretches for thousands of miles in what’s been named the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. Its massive growth is fueled by nutrient pollution from cattle ranching and farming in the Amazon River watershed. Like many of today’s most pressing environmental issues, its causes are complex and global, and solutions that don’t address the root of the problem are bound to fail.
#Environment #FYP #Viral #Trending #Ecology #Short #Shorts
