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‘A new normal’: Miami faces worsening seaweed problem as piles of algae wash up on beaches
Climate & EnergyThe Guardian20 Aug, 01:01 amAtlasHour
Climate & Energy

‘A new normal’: Miami faces worsening seaweed problem as piles of algae wash up on beaches

Officials have had to remove thousands of tons of sargassum from Florida’s beaches amid the climate crisis Dealing with seaweed is the bulk of Chris Bumpus’s job during the summer. As chief of conservation for Miami-Dade county’s parks, recreation and open spaces department, Bumpus is in charge of cleaning sargassum off 17 miles (27km) of county beaches. But some days, the odds are stacked against him and his team. More and more sargassum, a kind of floating brown algae, has been washing up on the beaches of south Florida, west Africa, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean...

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Officials have had to remove thousands of tons of sargassum from Florida’s beaches amid the climate crisis Dealing with seaweed is the bulk of Chris Bumpus’s job during the summer.

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