GazDetect Blog

Since May 2018, the sargassum seaweed massive stranding on beaches phenomenon is back in the West Indies, Cuba, the Caribbean and even Mexico. What are the consequences of the brown algae decomposition? Which gases are released? What are the detection and protection means against this sargassum gas? The sargassum seaweed phenomenom Sargassum seaweed – also known as brown algae – is a type of algae evolving in huge beds in the Atlantic (some beds diameter exceed 45km). Since 2011, massive beachings of sargassum seaweed on the Carribean coasts of the Atlantic has been a real environmental...