Record amount of seaweed is choking shores in the Caribbean
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Seaweed blanketing the Caribbean coasts shattered the all-time record in June. The tons of brown algae are killing wildlife and choking the tourism industry.
Lakes Beach is covered in sargassum in St. Andrew along the east coast of Barbados. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan) Seaweed covers the Atlantic shore in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts and Nevis. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan) Seaweed covers the Atlantic shore in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts and Nevis. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan) A bird stands on seaweed covering the Atlantic shore in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts and Nevis. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan) A tractor sweeps a beach lined with seaweed along the Atlantic shore in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts and Nevis. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan) Long Beach is covered with sargassum in Crest Church parish along the south coast of Barbados. (AP Photo/Kofi Jones) Seaweed covers the Atlantic shore in Frigate Bay, St. Kitts and Nevis. (AP Photo/Kofi Jones) Lakes Beach is covered in sargassum in St. Andrew along the east coast of Barbados. (AP Photo/Kofi Jones)
A raggedy carpet of vegetation recently surrounded an uninhabited island near the French Caribbean territory of St. Martin that is popular with tourists, forcing officials to suspend ferry service and cancel kayaking, paddleboarding and snorkeling tours. The normally translucent turquoise waters around Pinel Island turned into a prickly yellowish-brown slush.