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Abuses of Sargassum cleaning: Vacationers faced with backhoe loaders

Vacationers faced with backhoe loaders: the abuses of Sargassum cleaning

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When the Solution Becomes a Danger: The Risks of Mechanical Sargassum Removal on Beaches. In many tourist areas affected by massive sargassum landings, local authorities have chosen the most visible—and the fastest—solution: using heavy machinery to clear the beaches. Backhoes, bulldozers, and other mechanical shovels roam the sand daily, their buckets filled with brown algae, […]

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9-Meter Mountains of Sargassum Raise Growing Concern in the French Caribbean

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9-Meter Mountains of Sargassum: A Growing Environmental and Public Health Concern in the French Caribbean In several French Caribbean islands, massive piles of decomposing sargassum are now reaching heights of up to 9 meters. These are no longer simple algae accumulations along the shoreline. They resemble mountains. 🎥 Videos and field images show heavy machinery

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Satellite Images Reveal an Unusual Opening in the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt

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Satellite Images Reveal an Unusual Opening in the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt Figure 1. Before the opening formed, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt displayed a relatively continuous structure. The latest analyses conducted by Sargassum Monitoring have identified an unusual development within the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. By comparing satellite images collected over recent weeks, we

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