Sargassum is the smelly nemesis of beach holidays that is not going away

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Some of the world’s best beaches, including Miami Beach in Florida, are grappling with the disaster (Picture: Joel Villanueva/Getty Images)

You’ve been planning your dream beach vacation for months, only to arrive and find the shoreline covered in large piles of smelly, brown seaweed, with even more floating offshore.

It’s disappointing, for sure – and increasingly common.

Since 2011, summer scenes like this have played out on beaches in South Florida and through...

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