NASA Map Reveals Record Blob of Vacation-Wrecking Seaweed
Picture this: You’ve been waiting weeks for your tropical vacation, only to find the beach covered in piles of brown seaweed that reeks of rotten eggs. The water is full of it too, and swimming through it could put you in contact with organisms that cause skin irritation. The belt’s sargassum abundance last month made 2026 the second-highest sargassum year in the satellite record, just behind 2025, scientists at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Marine Science report.
- ▪Picture this: You’ve been waiting weeks for your tropical vacation, only to find the beach covered in piles of brown seaweed that reeks of rotten eggs.
- ▪The water is full of it too, and swimming through it could put you in contact with organisms that cause skin irritation.
- ▪The belt’s sargassum abundance last month made 2026 the second-highest sargassum year in the satellite record, just behind 2025, scientists at the University of South Florida (USF) College of Marine Science report.
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Picture this: You’ve been waiting weeks for your tropical vacation, only to find the beach covered in piles of brown seaweed that reeks of rotten eggs. The water is full of it too, and swimming through it could put you in contact with organisms that cause skin irritation. According to new data from NASA, this problem is particularly pervasive this…
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