Record Amount Of Stinky Seaweed Is Smothering Caribbean Coasts
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Photo captions: Lakes Beach is covered in sargassum in St. Andrew along the east coast of Barbados on July 27. Photo credit: AP Photo / Kofi Jones. Article by Dánica Coto, AP. HuffPost – August 3, 2022.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Near-record amounts of seaweed are smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados, killing fish and other wildlife, choking tourism and releasing stinky, noxious gases. More than 24 million tons of sargassum blanketed the Atlantic in June, shattering the all-time record, set in 2018, by 20%, according to the University of South Florida’s Optical Oceanography Lab. […]
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