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Massive Atlantic sargassum blooms traced to West Africa
- April 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Massive blooms of Sargassum seaweed that have inundated coastlines across the Atlantic since 2011 likely originate off the coast of West Africa—forming years before they are visible and overturning long-standing assumptions about where these events begin.
Originally published at Phys.org