A picture I took yesterday on the beach in Tulum,

https://imgur.com/a/HkYhIhx

https://archive.ph/VubVx

NOAA's reporting tool

https://research.noaa.gov/noaa-sargassum-tool-now-provides-d...

who knew runoff from tons of fertilizer and adding load of CO2 to the oceans would grow plants

Is the title a take on the Neuromancer intro?

We have been having a similar issue in my hometown in Greece (photo from this June: https://i2.prth.gr/files/2026-06-08/thermaikos-plankton-mkt....). Ours is plankton and I think the cause might be runoff from fertilizers and years of wastewater. It started getting worse around 2017.

I lived in Cancun 10 years ago and this was already a huge issue back then.

while sargassum is a bane for beaches, corals, and tourist industries, it's a big boon for ocean life far off the coast.

Can this particular weed be eaten as-is, by human or animal, or is it known to e.g. be toxic or full of waste? Because it seems to me rather beneficial that the ocean washes it up on the shoreline ready for pick-up.

If the US was doing it, we'd only need a Little Excursion against Seaweed!

I hate this "War on X" rhetoric. They're not going to bomb the ocean or send troops to shoot it, so why make it sound like it? Just say what they're actually going to do about it.

the US has summoned the ambassador of Seaweed to answer for this

our chocolate shortage is dire!

The big answer is not some "war on..." But instead "how can we eat it?" Or "Can it be reprocessed into something useful?"

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