{"id":80779,"date":"2026-08-21T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/80779\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:15:26","slug":"33m-tons-of-toxic-seaweed-clogs-caribbean-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/80779\/","title":{"rendered":"33m tons of toxic seaweed clogs Caribbean beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"33m tons of toxic seaweed clogs Caribbean beaches\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p2z_zCYWWA8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n33m tons of toxic seaweed clogs Caribbean beaches<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA record amount of sargassum has piled up along coastlines of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Sargassum is a brown seaweed that causes lower oxygen levels and foul-smelling gases when decomposed on beaches. Researchers and marine scientists have warned that the algae build-up starves underwater plant life of sunlight, has an impact human health and can leak arsenic into the sand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"33m tons of toxic seaweed clogs Caribbean beaches A record amount of sargassum has piled up along coastlines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[65948,31638,65949,1333,61724,65950,935,3284,936,272,2191,240,261,1186,65951,854,2235,23447,497,6949,65952,4394,35485,258,178,235],"class_list":["post-80779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guardian-news","tag-algae","tag-beaches","tag-biology","tag-caribbean","tag-central-america","tag-costa-rica","tag-environment","tag-florida","tag-gdnpfpenvironment","tag-gdnpfpnewsworld","tag-gdnpfpscience","tag-guardian","tag-guardian-news","tag-health","tag-marine-bology","tag-marine-life","tag-mexico","tag-north-america","tag-science","tag-scientists","tag-seaweed","tag-tourism","tag-toxic","tag-us-news","tag-world","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117134882640782017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}