Known as sargassum, the brown seaweed has the ability to blanket beaches, and the influx could persist for months. Miami-Dade County has allocated $3.9 million for cleanup efforts so far, and are requesting an additional $2 million from the state.
Beachgoers along Florida's east coast are encountering enormous clumps of seaweed from a colossal seaweed blob drifting in from the Atlantic Ocean. Known asthe brown seaweed has the ability to blanket beaches as far as the eye can see, and the influx could persist for months.
"There are parts of the beach where there's so much sargassum on the shoreline where it's undesirable and difficult to get into the water," Vasquez said. Vasquez expressed concern over whether he made the right choice in purchasing his retirement property and said the sargassum is not what he bargained for.
Afeefa Abdool-Ghany, a doctoral candidate studying sargassum at the University of Miami, attributes the phenomenon to a rise in nutrient-rich wastewater resulting from the growing global population. The nutrients, which are discharged into rivers and ultimately reach the ocean, act as fertilizers for the sargassum, contributing to its exponential growth."Instead of putting it into a landfill, we wanted to compost it into a usable product can be made from it," Abdool-Ghany said.
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