Massive seaweed front threatens US and Caribbean beaches – US

WASHINGTON/Mexico City – A massive mass of brown algae is drifting toward the US coast and beaches in the Gulf of Mexico. In all, about 6.1 million tons of the algae moved from the central Atlantic toward the Caribbean, marine scientists at the University of South Florida reported. That is the second largest amount of algae since records began in 2011. The first foothills of the cloud of algae have already washed up on beaches on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, it said.