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Seaweed blooms smother Caribbean and Mexico coastlines

A report says about 27 million metric tons of sargassum were recorded in July across the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
WHO: University of South Florida's Optical Oceanography Lab
WHAT: A report records large amounts of self-sustaining sargassum smothering coastlines
WHEN: Jul 31, 2026 at 8:41 PM ET
WHERE: Caribbean to Mexico
WHY: Huge blankets of self-sustaining sargassum were recorded in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in July.

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