Friday, July 5, 2019

World's biggest seaweed bloom has now grown so big it spans the Atlantic Ocean and reaches from the coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico

A seaweed bloom unlike the world has ever seen has been spotted from space, reaching from the west coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico some 5,000 miles away. NASA’s satellite data (pictured) confirms that the record-breaking seaweed belt forms in the summer months (northern hemisphere). 2015 and 2018 had the biggest of the massive blooms that started in 2011