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Seaweed plays a key role in the world’s oceans. But too much of it disrupted ecosystems in the Caribbean this May. Brian Barnes has written about it in a new report published this week by the University of South Florida’s Optical Oceanography Lab. Barnes tells Host Carolyn Beeler that there’s no single scientific explanation for the explosive growth.