Sargassum weed covers the beach of Dorado Royale hote in Cancun, Yucatan, peninsula, Mexico

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Sargassum is a genus of large brown seaweed (a type of algae) that floats in island-like masses and never attaches to the seafloor. Fed by human activity such as intensive soya farming in the Congo, the Amazon and the Mississippi, which dumps nitrogen and phosphorus into the ocean, the sargassum explosion is by far the biggest seaweed bloom on the planet

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Location: Dorado Royale hotel, Cancun, Mexico,
Photo credit: © David G / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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