National Geographic USA – June 2019

0 mi 1,000 0 km 1,000 Sargassum movement Ocean current Gu lf^ Stream Azo res Ca na ry North Equa torial Equa torial Counter An t ...

Small gas-filled bulbs called pneumatocysts keep sargassum buoy- ant and close to the surface, providing a raft for this sargass ...

1 Sargassum fish Common octopus Glasseye snapper Copepod Sergeant major Balloonfish Sargassum nudibranch Squirrelfish, juvenile ...

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A sperm whale swims beneath golden sargas- sum. The weed nurtures countless life-forms, from single-celled organisms to the larg ...

THE WEED THAT FEEDS THE NORTH ATLANTIC 137 ...

Sargassum enmeshed in rope provides shade and shelter for trigger- fish. Human-made debris, from shipping pallets to plastic cra ...

Artist and writer James Prosek is working on a book about ways of naming and ordering the natural world. David Doubilet has phot ...

I CAN ALMOST FEEL the sizzle of energy as sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water work the magic of photosynthesis while I drift, wr ...

ABOVE A school of jacks forage beneath translucent mats of golden weed. Jules Verne, in his 1870 book Twenty Thousand Leagues Un ...

During a visit to Delhi’s Jama Masjid, one of India’s largest mosques, George noticed two individu- als among the many awaiting ...

SEE THE CAT SHE WAS BORN TO BE The natural nutrition she was born to eat with Real Chicken or Ocean Whitefish as the #1 ingredie ...

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