{
  "id": 1699650,
  "title": "‘A new normal’: Miami faces worsening seaweed problem as piles of algae wash up on beaches",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/a-new-normal-miami-faces-worsening-seaweed-problem-as-piles-of-algae",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-18T11:30:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/18/miami-sargassum-seaweed-problem-climate-crisis"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Officials have had to remove thousands of tons of sargassum from Florida’s beaches amid the climate crisis Dealing with seaweed is the bulk of Chris Bumpus’s job during the summer. As chief of conservation for Miami-Dade county’s parks, recreation and open spaces department, Bumpus is in charge of cleaning sargassum off 17 miles (27km) of county beaches. But some days, the odds are stacked…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}