In 2019, we posted about an 8,850-kilometer Atlantic sargassum belt from the Gulf of Mexico to West Africa. The floating mat of the brown buoyant seaweed had a devastating impact on beaches across the east coast of Mexico, the Caribbean, Texas, and Florida. The researchers said that this sargassum belt represented the world’s largest macroalgal bloom and that such recurrent blooms may become the new normal.
Now, a new sargassum bloom is befouling pristine beaches on Mexico’s east coast and across the Caribbean, threatening a post-COVID tourism rebound in the region.
An updated repost fitting for the day.
In February, we posted 
For a decade, we have followed the various announcements by Australian billionaire Clive Palmer regarding his 
Earlier this month, the 180,000 cubic meter ultra-large LNG carrier 
The 
On June 13th, Moul Thun, a 42-year-old fisherman from Kaoh Preah, a remote island in the Mekong River, in northern Cambodia, hooked an exceptionally large 
A cruise ship that would have ranked as one of the world’s largest is going straight from the shipyard building ways to the scrappers. 
In 2010, we posted about the 
China has launched a semi-autonomous unmanned research vessel designed to serve as a “mother ship” for more than 50 unmanned aircraft, surface vessels, and submersible drones.
Canada and Denmark have ended the good-natured “whisky war” over