A massive collection of seaweed is heading toward North America (Credit: Vely Michel/ CC-BY-SA-4.0/ Wikimedia Commons)

A giant mass of brown seaweed called Sargassum is heading toward North America. Experts estimate it is over 5,500 miles (8,851 km) long and weighs around 10 million tons. The seaweed is expected to wash ashore on beaches in the Caribbean and Florida in late spring or early summer of 2023.