Blob Watch: Massive Seaweed Patch Bearing Down on Florida, Caribbean
March 16, 2023
“An entirely new oceanographic phenomenon.”
“Catastrophic for tourism.”
This bloom is a whole new scale, creating chaos, poisoning other species, creating dead zones over the whole region – this is no joke.
Could it become a way to sequester carbon?
March 16, 2023 at 1:56 pm
“Catastrophic for tourism.”
It’s one of the sad realities that the island paradises base large parts of their economy on having people fly in (sometimes long distances) to visit.
March 18, 2023 at 3:07 pm
“Could it become a way to sequester carbon?”
Seaweed rots, so almost certainly not.