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‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed

By Marta Zaraska · The Guardian · May 2026

‘I couldn’t breathe’: the sinister spread of France’s killer seaweed

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"After a series of deaths on the beaches of Brittany, one bereaved family set out to prove the foul-smelling bloom was to blame"

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