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  1. 4-Dec-2025
    USF-led study reveals dramatic decline in some historic sargassum populations
    Study points to basin-wide ecological impacts as #sargassum
    patterns change

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #ecology #MarineBiology #algae #atlantic

  2. The Government of #StKitts and #Nevis is exploring solutions to address the growing problem of #sargassum seaweed that continues to wash up along the #beaches. sknvibes.com/news/newsdetails.

  3. This used to be a stretch of sandy beach in Humacao, Puerto Rico. Thanks to warming water temperatures, sargassum seaweed blooms have choked beaches all around the Caribbean islands.

    Not only is the seaweed clogging the beach, it seems to contribute to beach erosion. There's now a steep drop off where there used to be soft dunes. We saw plenty of dead fish that were probably caught in the mass of seaweed and died when the tide dropped.

    #PuertoRico #Sargassum #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming

  4. Since 2011, massive, episodic influxes of floating #sargassum seaweed on #Caribbean shorelines have emerged as a coastal hazard and a recurring economic shock to tourism-dependent Small Island Developing States (SIDS). undp.org/barbados/projects/imp

  5. Sargassum seaweed (Sargassum muticum) or Wire-weed is an invasive seaweed, originating in Japan that is now found all along our coastline. Believed to have been spread between oyster farms. The small round air bladders help it float upright in the water column - and spread along the coasts when fragmented during stormy weather.
    County Clare, Ireland.

    Cormacscoast.com walking tours

    #wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #Sargassum #seaweed

  6. Swimming #crustacean eats unlikely food source in the deep ocean phys.org/news/2024-09-crustace

    A #DeepSea isopod that consumes #Sargassum sinking from the #ocean’s surface royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

    "Using the submersible #Alvin, scientists encountered this isopod swimming 3.7 miles deep... Surprisingly, these #isopods can be seen carrying something more common on the ocean's surface: large pieces of Sargassum #algae. At the surface, Sargassum grows using photosynthesis, forming floating forests"

  7. A By-the-Wind Sailor (Velella velella) washed up on the shore with a sprinkling of Sargassum seaweed "berries".
    County Clare, Ireland.

    Cormacscoast.com walking tours

    #wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #marinelife #biodiversity #bythewindsailor #Sargassum #Ireland

  8. Secrets of #sargassum: Scientists advance knowledge of #seaweed causing chaos in the Caribbean and West Africa
    phys.org/news/2024-05-secrets- paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2312

    "floating mats of sargassum have long been present in the North #Atlantic. However, since 2011, a population has established between West Africa and South America, and increased in size to form 'the great Atlantic sargassum belt'—a 9,000km-long bloom, visible from space and estimated to weigh 35 million tons."

  9. Floating #algae acts as a raft for juvenile #pelagic fish phys.org/news/2024-01-algae-ra

    Stable isotopes reveal #sargassum rafts provide a trophic subsidy to juvenile pelagic fishes sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    "These rafts attract large numbers of juvenile #fish and other animals and are a potentially important transitional habitat for pre-settlement coastal #fishes... Macroalgal rafts can exceed a square kilometer, thus providing extensive habitat in some regions"

  10. "The "#AmericanDream" is a very painful dream."

    Returning to #Mexico with $55 after decades in the #UnitedStates, #OmarVazquez started his own successful #plant #business and soon expanded into a more personal pursuit of using the massive amounts of #sargassum washing ashore to make #bricks.

    These blooms are likely caused by #ClimateChange, and this business may soon be another Everything, Everywhere, All at Once option for #sustainable #HomeBuilding.
    #insulation #link: youtu.be/2fXiboAGQvM?si=jbeEvA

  11. Study identifies nutrients as a driver of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt
    phys.org/news/2023-10-nutrient

    Nutrient and #arsenic #biogeochemistry of #Sargassum in the western #Atlantic nature.com/articles/s41467-023

    "Under normal conditions, the floating #algae provide habitat for hundreds of types of organisms. However, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt that emerged in 2011 has since then caused unprecedented inundations of this brown #seaweed on Caribbean coastlines, with harmful effects on ecosystems"

  12. Secrets of #Sargassum
    Dr. #BrianLapointe, Research Professor
    Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at
    Florida Atlantic University
    Dr. Lapointe shares his work on the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt in the tropical Atlantic Ocean that has been the source of Sargassum impacting the Caribbean region since 2011.

    November 30th, 2023 @ 1 PM ET

    angari.org/sargassum-blooms/

  13. Jean Rhys - De wijde Sargasso zee

    "Elk ongelukkig gezin is op zijn eigen manier ongelukkig" (Tolstoj)

    Antoinette Cosway, de eerste mrs. Rochester uit Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre, is daar geen uitzondering op.

    "Geen slavernij meer [...] Mij stemde dat niet treurig. Ik had geen herinnering aan betere tijden" zegt (denkt?) ze als ze het over haar vroege kindertijd heeft als 'witte kakkerlak' op Jamaica.

    Vanaf dat moment al grijpt het verhaal je vast en sleurt je mee een andere tijd en plaats in.
    Door de wisselingen van perspectief, van innerlijk en openlijk, van werkelijkheid en dat andere wordt het allemaal pijnlijk helder gemaakt.
    Mensen werden op heel andere en toch precies dezelfde manier worden vermorzeld als hier en nu.

    Wat een geweldig boek!!

    #WatWouterLas26 #LezenIsLeuk #Boekstadon #Reading #Bookstadon #LiteraryCannibalism

  14. CW: Klimaatverandering klimaatschade

    #Klimaatverzekeringen flink duurder geworden

    Herverzekeraars zijn de afgelopen maanden flink meer gaan vragen voor het overnemen van de risico’s op #klimaatschade. In sommige gevallen wordt zelfs nee verkocht.
    #klimaatverandering (betaalmuur)
    nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/01/05/klima

  15. I'm honestly *very* surprised that there really doesn't seem to be an actively developed #Python server project on here, beyond #Takahe which seems to lost in a sargasso sea of community non-engagement, a class of problem that I have long since learned I will probably not be the one to solve, ever.

    I don't know whether that says something about Python itself or the Python community or what.

  16. Det svåraste som finns är att leda med 3-0.

    #MAIF

  17. De senaste månadernas tal om fred och försoning låter hoppfulla – men bakom de politiska handslagen döljer sig en farligare verklighet. När rättvisa förhandlas bort till förmån för stillestånd blir freden den starkares vapen, inte de svagas skydd.

    https://blog.zaramis.se/2025/10/21/freden-ar-inte-alltid-god/