Officials have had to remove thousands of tons of sargassum from Florida\u2019s beaches amid the climate crisis<\/p>\n
Dealing with seaweed is the bulk of Chris Bumpus\u2019s job during the summer. As chief of conservation for Miami-Dade county\u2019s parks, recreation and open spaces department, Bumpus is in charge of cleaning sargassum off 17 miles (27km) of county beaches. But some days, the odds are stacked against him and his team.<\/p>\n
More and more sargassum, a kind of floating brown algae, has been washing up on the beaches of south Florida, west Africa, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n
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