Episode 696
The world's biggest patch of seaweed
Every summer in the mid-Atlantic, a monstrous island of brown seaweed has been appearing...
Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast · The Naked Scientists
July 24, 20193m 22s
Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (flex.acast.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.
Show Notes
The world's largest patch of seaweed appears every summer in the mid-Atlantic. And since 2011, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has been growing to even more monstrous sizes - thousands of kilometres long - and it's been clogging up beaches along the Americas with metres of stinking brown goo. Now, scientists in Florida and Georgia have used satellite tracking to figure out what's going on - as Phil Sansom explains... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
Topics
great atlantic sargassum belt