According to researchers at the University of South Florida’s Optical Oceanography Lab, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Seaweed Belt, a record-breaking mass of foul-smelling algae that started to arrive on Florida’s famous beaches this spring, shrunk by 75% last month in the Gulf of Mexico.
Scientists discovered 3 million tons of sargassum in the Caribbean Sea in April, setting a record for the amount of seaweed.
The huge decline in the Gulf of Mexico last month was “beyond expectation,” according to a statement from the Optical Oceanography Lab, even though scientists had predicted the mass would decrease in June.
“Very little Sargassum was found by the end of June in
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