Since spring, Texas beaches have struggled to cope with record amounts of seaweed washing onshore. Stinky, rotting mats of sargassum disgust tourists, and they appear to put the endangered green sea turtle in even greater peril.

So what’s up with that? What is sargassum? Why is so much of it washing onto beaches this year? And does it mean that the Gulf of Mexico is in trouble? click HERE for complete story