{"id":26760,"date":"2023-03-19T18:18:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T22:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=26760"},"modified":"2023-03-19T18:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T22:21:01","slug":"a-seaweed-blob-twice-the-width-of-the-us-is-heading-toward-florida-heres-what-you-should-know-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=26760","title":{"rendered":"A seaweed blob twice the width of the US is heading toward Florida. Here&#8217;s what you should know | CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/sargassum-seaweed-blob-explained-florida-scn\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright hoverZoomLink\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/230317151939-01-sargassum-buildup-explainer-restricted.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Here&#8217;s what you should know about the 5,000-mile-wide blob of seaweed headed for Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/sargassum-seaweed-blob-explained-florida-scn\/index.html\">A seaweed blob twice the width of the US is heading toward Florida. Here&#8217;s what you should know | CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Something something makes it un-ideal or even prevents using as fertilzer or compost??<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>could it be burned and generate energy?  feed for humans? cattle? others?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A strange way to talk about the trucks involved&#8230; certainly it&#8217;s more like 200 truck x 8 trips per day sortat thing.  Or maybe they have disposable dump trucks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;In Barbados, locals were using \u201c1,600 dump trucks a day to clean the beaches of this seaweed to make it suitable for tourists and recreation on the beaches,\u201d Lapointe said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what you should know about the 5,000-mile-wide blob of seaweed headed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[805,1710,21],"class_list":["post-26760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-florida","tag-seaweed","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}