When free-floating patches of seaweed are pushed together by currents and winds, seaweed strandings can inundate the coastline with often devastating consequences.
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Communities and entrepreneurs are experimenting with ways to turn this nuisance into a valuable resource.
Floating seaweed can travel long distances to new territories and accumulate in large mats or wash ashore in huge quantities.
A chance encounter on a rocky seashore led one professor to invent autonomous robotics that can harvest the power of seaweed.
The sargassum problem is just one of many creeping slow onset events that is being exacerbated by climate change.
The seaweed invasion of parts of the Ghanaian shoreline is affecting coastal inhabitants.
Rotting seaweed has plagued the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, US and West African coasts for a decade. So we’ve developed a new approach to turn what’s now rubbish into green electricity and fertiliser.
Huge blooms of brown seaweed have fouled Florida and Caribbean beaches almost every year over the past decade. They originate in Africa and South America. and are fueled by human activities.
The consequences of a massively connected globe are real — and not limited to disease pandemics.
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Life Sciences Coordinator - Export Barbados, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Coastal Science, Florida International University
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Lecturer, Department of Marine and Fisheries Sciences, University of Ghana
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Research Fellow, University of Ghana
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Associate Professor, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Lecturer in Marine and Fisheries Sciences, University of Ghana
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton
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Full Professor, Biology, University of Guelph
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Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Scientist, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Oceanography, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Professor of Ocean Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Senior Research, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change; Professor of Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Professor of Geography, Environment & Development, University of Southampton
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Principal Research Fellow, ODI Global
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Associate Professor of Single Cell Genomics, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter