Microplastics tangled in the seaweed provide the perfect place for bacteria to grow.
An enormous blob of seaweed is floating through the Gulf of Mexico. As clumps of it start to wash up on beaches in Florida, scientists have made a potentially worrying discovery.
The thicket, known as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, could become overrun with Vibrio bacteria, according to a new study. Marine biologists from Florida Atlantic University have warned that as piles of this seaweed sit decomposing on beaches, the bacteria could be lurking in the vegetation.
Samples collected in the Caribbean and the Sargasso Sea were found to contain large amounts of plastic tangled in the
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