Miami’s Seaweed Siege: Researchers Scramble as Record Sargassum Hits
As the warm Atlantic currents accelerate, Miami-Dade County’s world-famous beaches are facing an unprecedented challenge: massive, foul-smelling influxes of sargassum. Researchers from the University of South Florida (USF) are now at the forefront of a critical scientific push to understand, track, and ultimately mitigate the record-high accumulations of this brown macroalgae. While sargassum is a…
