A Surge of Sargassum Seaweed Is Changing the Beach Vacation
May 7, 2023
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as posted by the channelThick, brown swaths of sargassum seaweed sully Caribbean and US shorelines every season. Here’s how hoteliers, advisers and travelers are learning to live with it, reports Bloomberg's Lebawit Lily Girma.
On the cusp of a record summer beach season in the Caribbean, Mexico and Florida, an outsized amount of sargassum seaweed is making its way toward vacationers’ favorite white sand coastlines. There’s no way to predict which destination will be hit hardest or how it might impact tourism.
This forthcoming wave isn’t a 5,000-mile, monster-sized sargassum blob, the University of South Florida’s Optical Oceanography Lab (USF) clarified in its March 2023 sargassum outlook bulletin, in light of recent news headlines. It’s simply a larger amount of clumps emerging from the 5,000-mile-wide Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt in the Atlantic. (Less than 0.1% of the water in the belt is covered by sargassum, the USF said).
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