What was previously a visual nuisance has become an existential threat to tourism in South Florida. According to NASA experts and satellite data, 2026 is emerging as a record year in the proliferation of sargass, surpassing the critical figures of 2023 and 2025. The huge masses of brown algae are not only arriving in industrial quantities, but they are doing so with an advance that has taken authorities by surprise. For tourists like Victoria Br…
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What was previously a visual nuisance has become an existential threat to tourism in South Florida. According to NASA experts and satellite data, 2026 is emerging as a record year in the proliferation of sargass, surpassing the critical figures of 2023 and 2025. The huge masses of brown algae are not only arriving in industrial quantities, but they are doing so with an advance that has taken authorities by surprise. For tourists like Victoria Br…