Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

What’s driving the huge blooms of brown seaweed piling up on Caribbean beaches

Here’s a handy geography question for your next trivia match: What is the world’s only sea that doesn’t have a land border?

The answer is the Sargasso Sea – a 2-million-square-nautical-mile haven of biodiversity that lies east of Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean. Rather than beaches, it’s bounded by rotating ocean currents that form the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre.

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