Small amounts of sargassum help clean water and take in carbon dioxide.

少量的马尾藻有助于清洁水和吸收二氧化碳。

And unusually large amounts of sargassum have floated into the Caribbean Sea.

大量马尾藻已经漂到加勒比海。

Large masses of sargassum also have hurt the Caribbean's fishing industry.

大量的马尾藻也损害了加勒比海的渔业。

Sargassum is a kind of sea plant called " seaweed" . It smells bad and is generally unattractive.

马尾藻是一种名为" 海藻" 的海洋植物。它的气味难闻，而且不吸引人。

This year, the sargassum along parts of Mexico's coast appears worse than it was last year.

今年，墨西哥海岸部分地区的马尾藻问题似乎比去年更严重。

Reason is sargassum is not toxic.

原因是马尾藻无毒。

Too much sargassum was thought to cause the recent deaths of thousands of fish in the French Caribbean island of Martinique.

人们认为马尾藻数量之多是导致法属加勒比海马提尼克岛最近数千条鱼死亡的原因。

[Man 1] The sargassum, just like the coral reefs are the canaries in the coal mine.

- [Man 1] 马尾藻， 就像珊瑚礁一样，是煤矿里的金丝雀。

He told the Associated Press he thinks the sargassum problem is a disaster that will badly hurt tourism and the local economy.

他告诉美联社，他认为马尾藻问题是一场灾难，将严重损害旅游业和当地经济。

Officials in Monroe county, which includes the Florida Keys, have set aside more than $200,000 to clean and remove sargassum from its beaches.

包括佛罗里达群岛在内的门罗县的官员们已经拨出20多万美元，用来清除海滩上的马尾藻。

Removal of sargassum after it hits beaches is also risky. It could harm the sea turtle eggs or young, for example.

清理侵入海滩的马尾藻也存在危险。例如，这可能会伤害到海龟蛋或幼小海龟。

Last month, the U.S. Virgin Islands warned of unusually high amounts of sargassum getting into the machinery at a desalination plant near St. Croix.

上个月，美国维尔京群岛警告说，圣克罗瓦附近一家海水淡化厂的机器中有异常大量的马尾藻进入机器。

Seaweed is found throughout the world and can be either free-floating, such  as sargassum, or attached to the sea bottom as in kelp.

海藻遍布世界各地， 可以是自由漂浮的，如马尾藻，也可以是附着在海底的， 如海带。

The government of Quintana Roo, a state in Mexico, says the sargassum invasion is one of the biggest issues " that climate change has caused for the world" .

墨西哥昆塔纳罗奥州政府表示，马尾藻入侵是" 气候变化给这个世界带来的" 最严重问题之一。

But, as Lopez notes, trying to collect sargassum on water could harm some sea life, such as coral that live in shallow waters close to the coast.

但是洛佩兹指出，在水中打捞马尾藻可能会损害一些海洋生物，如生活在靠近海岸的浅水域的珊瑚。

When sargassum dies, it leaves a terrible egg-like smell. And, as the dead seaweed drops to the ocean floor, it can kill the coral the Caribbean is known for.

马尾藻死后会散发臭鸡蛋般的难闻味道。而且，腐烂的马尾藻沉入海底后会杀死加勒比海著名的珊瑚。

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt - as the biomass stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico is called - contains scattered patches of seaweed on the open sea, rather than one continuous blob of sargassum.

大西洋马尾藻带从西非延伸到墨西哥湾，它包含了公海上一块块分散的海藻而不是一团团连续的马尾藻。