Over the past two decades, seaweed blooms have expanded by a staggering 13.4% a year in the tropical Atlantic and western Pacific, with the most dramatic increases occurring after 2008, according to researchers at the University of South Florida.
This shift could darken the waters below, changing their ecology and geochemistry, and may also accelerate climate breakdown.
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