It’s Not Your Imagination. Seaweed Is Everywhere.
From Florida's sewage-stinking sands to Australia's dying reefs, the ocean is choking on its own overgrowth. Record marine heat waves and a flood of agricultural runoff are turning seaweed and algae—once the humble engines of life on Earth—into a global menace, smothering beaches, gutting fisheries, and carving out a dead zone in the Gulf the size of New Jersey. The good news: from kelp restoration to smarter farming, we already know how to turn the tide.
Heat Waves Show Climate Change Is Here
A marine scientist takes her daughter to Paris for a graduation trip and lands in the middle of a record-shattering heat wave—then comes home to a California coastline running its own quiet fever. From melting kelp forests to a Louvre with restricted hours, one family vacation becomes a firsthand tour of a warming world, and a reminder that the ocean, our best defense against climate change, is under threat just when we need it most.
