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A mystery wave of seaweed is causing a stink in the Caribbean

The brown algae is blanketing shorelines from Puerto Rico to Guyana

The Independent UK

Scientists say a record amount of seaweed hit the Caribbean and nearby areas in May

A new report says that a record 38 million metric tons of sargassum piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, with more expected this month

The Independent UK

Man faces court after woman's 'tragic' grassfire death

A man has fronted court days after the body of a woman was found following a grassfire that has left a rural Victorian town reeling.

AAP

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Are You Allowed To Putt While Holding A Drink In One Hand?

Is it against the Rules of golf to putt out while holding a water bottle or a can of beer? Golf Monthly gives you the answer here.

Golf Monthly

Giant blobs of seaweed are hitting Florida. That's when the real problem begins

From Montego Bay to Miami, sargassum is leaving stinky brown carpets over what was once prime tourist sand. But whether it gets ignored or removed, it comes with high health and environmental risks.

WEKU

Blob of seaweed twice the width of entire US heading for Florida and threatening beaches

Beaches in the path of the gargantuan blob's path are bracing for being buried under three feet of rotting seaweed - and it's not just tourism that could be threatened

Daily Mirror

Florida beaches brace for 5,000-mile blob of seaweed to deposit rotting goop

Enormous clump of floating algae threatens to bring pungent odor of rotting eggs to tourist beaches of Gulf of Mexico

The Guardian - US

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Meet the sargassum belt, a 5,000-mile-long snake of seaweed circling Florida

Since 2011, a fleet of seaweed patches double the size of the contiguous U.S. has cycled from West Africa to Florida, threatening beaches from Martinique to Miami. This year, it could grow bigger.

WEKU

Market swings, software-based investing — and community banking - Roll Call

Amias Gerety, a partner at QED Investors, interviews M1 CEO Brian Barnes on relationship investing and automation in the fintech economy.

Roll Call

Rising temperatures could put an end to bears’ most famous habit

The creatures’ annual protracted snoozes have much to tell us about the biology of mammals, ourselves included. Now scientists are watching to see how bears will tweak their habits as the climate warms.

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