According to researchers at the University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Lab, the bloom “increased so substantially that the abundance reached a new record from all previous December months.“
In November, there were one million metric tons of sargassum in the central Atlantic; by December, that amount had grown to five million tons.
“This indicates that 2024 will be another major Sargassum year,” the researchers stated.
Satellite image from June 2021
Over the past ten years, there has been a noticeable increase in both the size and damage caused by these blooms. Brian Barnes, a research professor at the University of South Florida who specializes
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