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🇧🇶 Caribbean Region — Thick sargassum seaweed blankets coastlines from Puerto Rico to Guyana

A new wave of sargassum invasion is affecting the Caribbean Sea, with dense mats of brown algae washing up along shorelines from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 to Guyana 🇬🇾. This influx is threatening marine ecosystems and harming tourism and fishing industries.

‼️The seaweed accumulates near the coast, blocking access to the water, degrading water quality, and producing a foul odor as it decomposes. Such invasions can suffocate marine life by depleting oxygen levels in coastal waters.

⚠️Experts link the rise in sargassum blooms to climate change and pollution — particularly warmer ocean temperatures and nutrient runoff from agriculture.