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Seaweed

Environment & Natural Resources

Meet the sargassum belt, a 5,000-mile-long snake of seaweed nearing the Gulf of Mexico

Emily Olson

Since 2011, a fleet of seaweed patches double the size of the contiguous U.S. has cycled from West Africa to Florida, threatening beaches from Martinique to Miami. This year, it could grow bigger.