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A shot down a beach perpendicular to the teal blue water on the right, with a dark green forest in the background. In the foreground, stretching from the camera ll the way down the beach is a thick carpet of dark brown seaweed.

Sargassum Beach

A carpet of an invasive brown algae called sargassum coats Flamenco Beach, Culebra (Puerto Rico). Sargassum has been overpopulating in the waters of the Caribbean Sea in the last decade and wreaking havoc on shorefront communities like those in Puerto Rico.

Image Credit: NASA/Milan Loiacono
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