{"id":182334,"date":"2026-01-28T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/scientists-harness-ai-to-discover-a-rise-in-floating-algae-across-the-global-ocean\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:55:09","slug":"scientists-harness-ai-to-discover-a-rise-in-floating-algae-across-the-global-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/scientists-harness-ai-to-discover-a-rise-in-floating-algae-across-the-global-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists harness AI to discover a rise in floating algae across the global ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinvadingsea.com\/2026\/01\/28\/floating-algae-artificial-intelligence-ai-sargassum-ocean-temperature-currents-nutrients-usf\/\">Scientists harness AI to discover a rise in floating algae across the global ocean<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinvadingsea.com\/2026\/01\/28\/floating-algae-artificial-intelligence-ai-sargassum-ocean-temperature-currents-nutrients-usf\/\">https:\/\/www.theinvadingsea.com\/2026\/01\/28\/floating-algae-artificial-intelligence-ai-sargassum-ocean-temperature-currents-nutrients-usf\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-28 09:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theinvadingsea.com\">www.theinvadingsea.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers from the University of South Florida and NOAA have used artificial intelligence to conduct a comprehensive global study on floating algae, revealing that blooms are expanding across oceans.<\/li>\n<li>The study highlights that changes in ocean temperature, currents, and nutrients are likely contributing to the increase.<\/li>\n<li>From 2003 to 2022, microalgal scum and macroalgal mats have expanded globally, with macroalgal blooms increasing significantly, particularly in the tropical Atlantic and western Pacific.<\/li>\n<li>Macroalgae, while beneficial as habitats in open waters, become harmful when they clog coastal zones, affecting tourism, economies, and health.<\/li>\n<li>The tipping point for significant macroalgae blooms appears to be around 2008, marking a regime shift in the ocean from macroalgae-poor to macroalgae-rich conditions.<\/li>\n<li>The study employed a deep-learning model to analyze 1.2 million satellite images, facilitated by high-performance computing from USF\u2019s Research Computing department.<\/li>\n<li>The blooming trends are attributed to both human activities like nutrient runoff and natural climate variability, though specific regional causes may vary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists harness AI to discover a rise in floating algae across the global ocean https:\/\/www.theinvadingsea.com\/2026\/01\/28\/floating-algae-artificial-intelligence-ai-sargassum-ocean-temperature-currents-nutrients-usf\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/www.theinvadingsea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Sargassum-Seaweed-1024x576.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-182334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182336,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182334\/revisions\/182336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}