Giant, stinky seaweed blob headed for Florida
It is the Atlantic sargassum belt, and while not new, it has been growing bigger than ever.
Sargassum is a "brown macroalgae floating on the ocean surface", according to the University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Laboratory. In the North Atlantic, sargassum is a an important habitat for marine life, but after 48 hours on shore the seaweed starts to emit toxins like hydrogen sulphide which, in low amounts, smells like rotten eggs.
One contributing factor, Dr Barnes said, could be from the Amazon watershed - which has seen an increase in nitrogen that then fertilizes the sargassum.excessive
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