It’s brown, it weighs millions of tons, it stretches over 5,000 miles and it is headed for Florida’s beaches. An enormous clump of seaweed circulating the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic is set to coat beaches in a spongy goop, bringing with it a pungent odor similar to rotting eggs.
This is one of the many, many details that people don’t think about in regards to climate change. So many things will change going forward.
Florida beaches brace for 5,000-mile blob of seaweed to deposit rotting goop | The Guardian