Sargassum seaweed taking over beaches in Florida, Mexico and the Caribbean

Sargassum, a type of seaweed, is critical for marine life but is growing aggressively closer to shores. Its increasing presence is creating an unpleasant smell for beachgoers in Florida, Mexico and the Caribbean. NBC News’ Sam Brock shares more details on what’s driving the build up.
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[@jadedrealist]

Now the Florida coast smells like DeSantis's personality.

[@naudianeels1328]

Jealous? 🤔

[@nottheone582]

Best comment 😂😂😂

[@craigrussell7542]

In a sense, this is Mother Earth desperately trying to pull excess CO2 out of the ocean and atmosphere. We should be listening.

[@Soapboxstomper]

Its excessive nitogen due to fertilizer run off from storms

[@m.s.1715]

They should expand/replicate the operation of making them into bricks for adobe type homes like the founder of sarga blocks did in Mexico. He has built 40 homes using it mixed with dirt leftover from construction sites.

[@guybeingaguy]

So basically, its just another year of sargasm on my beach. Gotcha, thanks for info.

[@repboy1]

The beaches are open and beautiful isn’t that what the mayor said in JAWS ?

[@Soapboxstomper]

She was all about tourism monies…

[@ashlynnhendricks6244]

Shhhh don’t tell them about the toxic algae

[@windhime]

So, it's unconfortable for people, but is a home for more fishes, isn't it a good thing?

[@JimWellman]

One of my best days fishing was topped off by us pitching shrimp around a massive clump of sargasm weed near Venice, Louisiana. We caught so many tripletail and mahi. It's amazing how ignorant most people are, and they will stay ignorant because they gain what they think is knowledge by watching the news, which is mostly talking heads with no real world experiences who talk all day about things they aren't familiar with.

[@thedouglaspodcast]

@@JimWellman​​⁠sounds awesome 😍 and yeah I don’t think anyone is saying it’s a bad thing when it’s a home for the fishies. Only bad when it washed up on the beach to rot 😅 don’t think it’s much of a home for the fishies at that point lolol I agree about the news tho.. that’s why, when you stop watching all together (I ended up here trying to find stuff about the burningman disaster 💀), you’re able to hear the info but fully make up your own mind about it. Like.. all I’m hearing with this is that we have too much waste in the environment. So she’s doin her thang but adding more filters!! Kinda frustrates me how everyone is always talking about oh “electric car this.. energy tht” why don’t we ever talk about the amount of mf GARBAGE everywhere????? That’s MUCH more of an issue IMO than some naturally occurring seaweed washing on shore and rotting to fully break down into nothing 😅

[@Ambient_Scenes]

That's mother earth adapting to all the CO2 we pump into the atmosphere. Only appropriate it would be happening in Florida.

[@naudianeels1328]

Jealous you don't live here? 🤔

[@Soapboxstomper]

Nitrogen!!

[@bhattfam]

Respect for this man. Studying something for 40 years and only now the product is having its moment? Hopefully we can find an alternate use for this, ie. exfoliating soaps, soil enricher, etc.?

[@texasabbott]

Potentially it is an inexhaustible supply for building materials such as bricks (already in production), jet fuel and batteries.

[@thedouglaspodcast]

Literally my first thought. _How can this be repurposed?_ Afterall, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure 💀

[@wilecatrexy]

Probably a good compost/fertilizer.

[@kxmode]

"Sarcasm has been around since humans have been exploring the oceans." It sure has.

[@techman8817]

The first sarcastic remark was made at sea.

[@Soapboxstomper]

But maybe not THIS MUCH😂😂😂😂

[@floridaviolets9601]

So we put excess nitrogen into the water, the seaweed takes it in, collects it, then carries it to the shore for us. If only we would collect it and take it away from the oceans, we might lower the nitrogen concentration.

[@russcrawford3310]

Global warming is good for plants ... but nice catch ... it's excess _nitrogen_ ... not excess carbon dioxide that helps plants ...

[@aick]

0:07 It's not "Sargasm", buddy, it's "Sar-GASS-um"

[@Gadavillers-Panoir]

That gave me an oargassum.

[@thetrainwreck1469]

Glad we didn’t make vacation plans for Florida this year. So super gross.

[@Ghanjah-Man]

What are you 20 years old, what you mean gross. Y'all Americans are funny for real. Lol

[@rockdisappeared9203]

@@Ghanjah-Man lol go have fun in the 19 species of flesh eating bacteria, you ain’t got no alibi cuz you UGG. LEE, yeah yeah you Ugg Lee. 😂

[@JimWellman]

Me too. While in the Navy, anytime someone said they'd been to FL but hated the heat and mosquitoes, I'd say, "make sure and tell your friends".

[@j.a.3138]

Thanks god. one less tourist to worry about

[@Soapboxstomper]

@@j.a.3138 plus they dont want tourism business and they can be quite nasty and rude! Let by a nasty bully gov😮

[@AKhan.28]

In cancun right now and this stuff is everywhere lol

[@briancurtis4042]

Mother Nature good for her 🙏

[@sudo2998]

Amazing. Nature doing it's job to accelerate recycling the trash we dump into the ocean. Make compost with the sargassum seaweed I say.

[@thedouglaspodcast]

I’m assuming that’s essentially what that $4 million is doing 🥰 they chop it up, mix it with the sand and it breaks down into nothing! Boom, composted lolol

[@JK-br1mu]

The wide Sargasso Sea

[@nicholas4514]

I thought we figured this out years ago. It's due to the running from farms. All the fertilizers they use are washing into the waterways.

[@joeb134]

To be fair, I'm pretty sure that was the algae bloom. It should be intuitive that this was probably caused by the same thing * By algae bloom I meant red tide

[@bakarangerpinku]

lol we figured it out she’s the most corrupt mayor next to Rudy Giuliani.

[@goodun2974]

​@@joeb134 , Now that the Supreme Court has essentially declared the EPA unable to regulate land use, fertilizer runoff from Orange groves, sugar cane farms, and even residential lawns will be creating constant red tide and cyanobacteria blooms all along the Florida and Gulf coast. Say goodbye to your tourism industry!

[@leannecomerford8261]

Saw blobs of it late December on my way home from Saona Island

[@athos1974]

Good. Mother Nature strikes back at humans and their favorite beaches. 👏

[@naudianeels1328]

That's very kind hearted of you. You should be proud of yourself 🙄

[@athos1974]

@@naudianeels1328 As an environmentalist, my response is, perhaps humans should take better care of the planet.

[@naudianeels1328]

@@athos1974 Of course they should, but politicians need to lead by example 💔😞

[@HKim0072]

Florida is such a weird state. For a state that relies on the environment for its economy, citizens and politicians don't seem to care about the environment much.

[@naudianeels1328]

I live in Florida & care very much about the environment. So does everyone I know who lives here. Maybe you shouldn't judge? 🤔

[@HKim0072]

@@naudianeels1328 “I’ve not been convinced that there’s any man-made climate change,” Scott said then. “Nothing’s convinced me that there is.” Ron DeSantis denounces “woke” green investments, says he’s “not a global warming person” and has abysmal ratings from national environmentalists. Rubio said that there was no “​​scientific evidence to justify” the claim that climate change is caused by humans and went as far as to say, “I do not believe that human activity is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way these scientists are portraying it.” These are the people that FL voted in for many years.

[@ThatOneGuyFromSchool]

​@@naudianeels1328 they said citizens and politicians sure, some like you care about the environment. Most apparently don't, because they vote for people like Ron Desantis

[@bakarangerpinku]

Or the people. Sargassum contains 19 different kinds of flesh-eating bacteria.

[@nottheone582]

​@@bakarangerpinkuit's not harmful to humans. But the original point stands. Not one person in the video talked about how to prevent it. Eg no one wants to face climate change

[@zorantesic]

MAKE BIOGSAS FROM SARGASSUM ONE TON OF SARGASSUM BRINGS 4000 KW ENERGY

[@paull789]

🎶🎶Since Republican Congressmen refuse to do their jobs making budgets and passing these budgets every year 🎶maybe since they are so "worried"about the National debt which was mostly created by themselves🎶 I think that maybe republican congressmen could get second jobs with their pay going straight into the National Treasury to help make ends meet🎶 but What would they be qualified to do?🎶🎶 I think by Executive Orders The President should bring back full service ⛽ gas stations like we used to have in the 1950's with the team of attendants dressed in white uniforms with the white paper hats and have green, boebert, hawley, gaetz, Lopez, and scott pumping gas, checking the fluids under the hood, and operating the automated carwash 🎶🎶 maybe if McCarthy can manage to get through vocational school he could rotate and balance tires🎶this would be a Great start on working the National Deficient down🎶and I think this would improve the mood of the American people all around🎶Everybody wins🎶🎶🎶

[@Soapboxstomper]

And mccarthy doesnt want any lazy Americans to sit on their couch and not work.. So maybe mc carthy could get a real job and actually get off his lazy but and do something that helps Americans… maybe HE could clean car windshields?????

[@j.a.3138]

DONT COME TO FLORIDA GUYS. WE GOT SEAWEED EVERYWHERE. GO SOMEWHERE ELSE

[@Soapboxstomper]

Thats what i was thinking…

[@lelandgaunt9985]

I never faked a sargasm in my life.

[@ohcharlie428]

Are you being sargastic?

[@strongmermaid4651]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tannerpaisley-ve6dq]

🙄😴

[@Soapboxstomper]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@wilecatrexy]

I bet it would make great compost fertilizer.

[@richardengelhardt582]

Floruda was always and still is a swamp of miasma -- natural and poltical

[@naudianeels1328]

Jealous? 🤔

[@thetrainwreck1469]

Hear Hear

[@ManiacalAge]

Tonga Volcano erruption probably played a part in this

[@NghiaNguyen-qq7yx]

i dont see any issues at all!!!! Just eat it..

[@goodun2974]

Apparently you don't bother to look things up before you comment. Sargassum is full of cadmium and other toxic heavy metals.

[@Soapboxstomper]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@itzamia]

Great. Show's up unannounced and full of Sargassum.

[@adventurelife_]

Make the sea weed into plastic substitution in some packaging

[@thisguy73]

Seaweed is so woke! If it wasnt Desantis would defeat it by himself!! - Newsmax

[@adventurelife_]

Make supplements with it

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

How about that vibrio bacteria

[@wilecatrexy]

Huh huh, he said sargasm huh huh.

[@lifeisabadjoke5750]

So Thailand instead

[@John-fc9su]

Like always we are going to have to adapt and evolve 💪🦾🦾

[@LAFITZ10]

they should pay residents like they do recycling bottles and cans... HELP THE POOR & clean up

[@KevinStDenis1]

It also produces oxogen!

[@bakarangerpinku]

And eats flesh!!

[@Soapboxstomper]

I heard it uses up O2 depriving coral reefs of O2????

[@KevinStDenis1]

@@Soapboxstomper - A majority of the O2 produced in the world comes from the sea… (seaweed). On the other hand so does a majority of the carbon dioxide… it dies and rots.

[@JohnSmith-gi3nl]

The irony

[@imhere1303]

Having a sargassum rn

[@philemfulloflead]

🤦‍♂️

[@edd868]

Is it edible?

[@bakarangerpinku]

There’s 19 kinds of flesh eating bacteria in there. It’s safe because otherwise it’s crippling to tourism!!

[@goodun2974]

Most definitely not edible as it contains cadmium and other toxic heavy metals. It can't be composted or used as fertilizer.

[@Soapboxstomper]

Only if you ask rump! Washed down with a covid bleach chaser…

[@Bob-bm1fk]

Big old mat of seaweed. Probably hold in ocean temps and have warmer water for hurricane season.

[@teresasmith4145]

Mankind has made the earth uninhabital. God Almighty is going to renew the earth during the Millenium.

[@pcsolawman1]

Nothing new here

[@Joomlahacks]

My gf loves to have sargassum.

[@f1s2hg3]

Miami Florida residence are flushing their aquarium plants down the toilet and it comes up and grows !

[@majorseventh2699]

Mix some into a yummie salad.. What sarcasm!

[@texasabbott]

Sargassum is free raw materials for jet fuel, batteries and building materials. Collect it from the beaches and sell it. Florida is wasting sargassum.

[@palmsofdestin1]

Amazing how you can't find any recent stories on the seaweed Bloom. Gosh it's like it never happened! Kind of like Corona.

[@tomahawkmissile241]

excited to see the next HABS in a month

[@MatthewMorgan25]

Our Planet is Dying - Everyone is to blame

[@wilecatrexy]

It's not dying silly.

[@OpinionValid]

Well then Vibrio happened...

[@sexywave]

sargassum as sarcasm? 🤣

[@simulationkoyo]

It's the Sarcasm. From south park.

[@adventurelife_]

Lets eat it

[@severusbernard7404]

When Sir Gassum from Britain has had enough of DeSantis and lands his ship in Florida:

[@patrickwalsh4615]

Ewww!

[@russcrawford3310]

Dump Round-up on the patches ... easy peasy ... gotta protect Florida beaches ...

[@bradforward850]

Think maybe your God's trying to tell you something? Payin' for Trump and DeSantis. 😂

[@sleepy670]

nasty

[@jeannietimberger2556]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@smoll8746]

Human waste? Look for the source. Ewe.

[@Rumb1epit]

Don't forget Ron DeSantis allowed Piney Point drain 400 Million gallons of nitrate rich toxic waste into the basin which leads to the sea.

[@goodun2974]

The Supreme Court has essentially declared that the EPA can't regulate what people or corporations do with private land; Therefore, agricultural companies growing oranges and sugar cane, and even homeowners with residential lawns, will be free to dump as much fertilizer run off as they want into the oceans. In 10 years Florida will be buried in red tide ime, green cyano- bacteria blooms, and sargassum mats floating up on the beaches.

[@Soapboxstomper]

Figures…😢😢😢😢

[@993mike]

It's just one of many things that stinks in Florida!

[@Speakupok]

Another plague .

[@zhuangma521]

I can purchase these seaweed. I come from China. If you can collect and dry the seaweed, I can recycle it to China and pay some fees. You can contact me.

[@rockdisappeared9203]

And I hope NBC News is also held accountable for sargassum flesh eating bacteria tourist injury or death. SAVING THIS VIDEO. Don’t give her airtime unless you want brought down, too!!

[@Soapboxstomper]

Sargasm AND flesh eatting bacteria are NOT this networks responsibility!!! They have no liability when you scoop up sargasm on a florida beach and use it to enrich your garden then discover your skin is infected by flesh eatting bacteria!! Not sure who’d be liable? Maybe Florida if they know it poses a health risk and they keep their beaches open? Im sure desantis is tuned into paying attention to this while he is in…. Iowa????

[@redbutterfly88]

Florida spending 4million in cleaning? why not make some fertilizer or something product to sell? theres gotta be good product to make of it

[@trudy-annsmall9600]

Great minds think alike...I was wondering why they see it as a problem when it must be a solution to something

[@bakarangerpinku]

There are 19 different kinds of flesh eating bacteria in that seaweed. What kind of fertilizer could you make that’s safe for humans to utilize later??

[@trudy-annsmall9600]

@@bakarangerpinku leave it up to the Chinese they will figure something out

[@goodun2974]

It contains cadmium and other toxic heavy metals. Can't be eaten, can't be composted, can't be used as fertilizer.

[@Soapboxstomper]

But but but… flesh eating bacteria!! I aint gonna touch dat stuff!!😮😮😮😮😮

[@shermantincher3417]

Punishment from GOD! for all the hypocrites in Florida who voted for Desatan. While claiming to be good Christian people and voting for a criminal.

[@patoni860]

Put some ranch dressing on it and sell it to vegans

[@clarenceawalker1873]

Recover it balance it in fertilizer the important thing is to get it off the beaches for Floridians and Tourist it's a part of evolution.

[@goodun2974]

Sargasm is full of cadmium and other toxic heavy metals and it can't be used for compost or fertilizer.

[@Soapboxstomper]

But now its found to have flesh eatting bacteria so who ya gonna get to handle it???

[@veizagajp]

It’s the ocean letting humans know that we aren’t welcome along those shores anymore.

[@deedetres703]

also remember John Kerry said it was ok for japan to release fukushima water a few months ago Dec 2022 . so they are releasing the water and nitrogen which was injected into the reactors- so it into OUR Waters! UN does not have a water oversight agency to collaborate a strong mitigation - the release of the water is irresponsible IMO and I think the people in Florida need to seriously track its spread over the next few weeks and think about what they would need to do if there was severe overgrowth and dead zones in commercial or recreational fishing areas

[@Soapboxstomper]

I heard it was related to deforestation in brazil and feetilizer run off???

[@deedetres703]

@@Soapboxstomper it would be difficult to pin on one event - chesapeake is a serial repeat offender as well with nitrogen from untreated chicken manure run off.

[@redbutterfly88]

blame the cruise and ships sailing the sea throwing their waste in the sea.

[@Soapboxstomper]

Thats not what it is😂

[@catfishman9516]

This is nothing new

[@Soapboxstomper]

Cept its the size of the USA😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@catfishman9516]

@@Soapboxstomper meh

[@gbuddy80]

See weed 😂😂😂

[@anklebiter9116]

It's seaweed it's fine.

[@Soapboxstomper]

Mixed with flesh eatting bacteria…😮

[@jackmeehof2440]

Woke is to blame

[@blackmagic63109]

I know it's petty, but I hate Florida and love fish, so this makes me happy.

[@donaldjackson4456]

Oh stop with the climate change bs

[@jlk630]

How do you explain it then trailer park scholar?

[@jlk630]

Only most of the world accepts its fact. How do you explain your ignorance?

[@naudianeels1328]

​@@jlk630 If they really cared about climate change they wouldn't be living in mansions & flying around on private jets Einstein. Wake up. It's a big money making scheme 🙄

[@donaldjackson4456]

@@jlk630 did you come up with that all by yourself or did your husband pitch in?

[@jlk630]

@@donaldjackson4456 bahahaha ok inbred.

[@jamesdiamond5725]

nice

[@jaxlovescarmel]

Its tryna eat desantis.. Hes a poison...