(NEXSTAR) – Bits of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt – a 5,000-mile-wide seaweed bloom – have started to wash up in Florida, but we’re likely months away from peak activity, researchers said Sunday.

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(NEXSTAR) – The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is thriving, “setting a record abundance” for this time of year, according to a new report released Friday. All that abundance – an estimated 13 million ...

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Marine biologists in Brazil are probing a bizarre marine life incident in which a dead humpback whale was found 50 feet ashore on an island in the Amazon River. The whale was discovered on Friday. At ...

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