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A blanket of seaweed smothers coastlines from the Caribbean to Mexico

A blanket of seaweed smothers coastlines from the Caribbean to Mexico
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Swaths of seaweed are blanketing the beaches and coastlines of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, suffocating shorelines and snuffing out marine life while spooking visitors in areas that depend heavily on tourism. Some 27 million metric tons of self-sustaining sargassum have been recorded in the...

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