PACE's Ocean Color Instrument mapped June 2026 Sargassum as scattered concentrations across the tropical Atlantic—not a solid transatlantic raft.NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin; PACE data courtesy of Lin Qi (NOAA), Brian Barnes and Chuanmin Hu (USF Optical Oceanography Laboratory) · U.S. government/NASA informational media with no third-party copyright notice; reusable with acknowledgement under NASA Media Usage Guidelinesanalysis
The Atlantic Seaweed Belt Is Not a Blob. That Makes It Harder to Fight
The 2026 bloom is second only to last year across the Atlantic system, while the Caribbean and Gulf hit records of their own. The satellite map shows why that enormous total is real—and why it is not a forecast for any particular shore.
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