Sargassum off Big Pine Key in the Lower Florida Keys. (IMAGE)

University of South Florida

Sargassum off Big Pine Key in the Lower Florida Keys.

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It's been a particularly bad year for brown seaweed in the Florida Keys.

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Brian Lapointe, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute

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