What is a Polynya?
Polynya is an oceanography term that refers to an open body of water surrounded by ice.
Polynya is an oceanography term that refers to an open body of water surrounded by ice.
In 2018, a large bloom of seaweed (Sargassum) formed a belt that extended for 8,850 kilometers – from the west coast of Africa into the Gulf of Mexico – weighting at least 20 million tons.