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What's driving the huge blooms of brown seaweed piling up on Florida and Caribbean beaches?

  • Written by Stephen P. Leatherman, Professor of Coastal Science, Florida International University
imageMats of Sargassum seaweed off the coast of St. Martin in April 2018.ELY Michel CC BY-SA 4.0, , CC BY-SA

Here’s a handy geography question for your next trivia match: What is the world’s only sea that doesn’t have a land border?

The answer is the Sargasso Sea – a 2-million-square-nautical-mile haven of biodiversity that lies...

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