Algae blooms occur regularly in the carribean, the Gulf of Mexico and northern south america, driven by upwelling of ...

Headlines from various media outlets have painted a grim picture of a monstrous blob of seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean they say could blanket Florida's beaches and ruin the summer for millions. It's ...

Upwelling of deep water rich in phosphorus supports an N-fixing symbiont that lives on Sargassum algae, giving the algae a ...

The seaweed, which smells like rotten eggs and emits toxic gases when it comes ashore, proved a nuisance for Florida beachgoers in the spring – which is also the start of the Sunshine State’s tourist ...

By the beginning of June this year, approximately 38 million tons of Sargassum drifted towards the coasts of the Caribbean ...

Remember the massive sargassum bloom that blanketed Southwest Florida beaches last summer? Of course you don't, because we didn't get hammered by the floating mass of seaweed, predators and prey.

A gargantuan mass of seaweed that formed in the Atlantic Ocean is headed for the shores of Florida and other coastlines throughout the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump smelly and potentially ...

Beachgoers have been reporting mounds of seaweed washing up on the shores of South Florida and scientists say record amounts are choking the coasts of the Atlantic and the Caribbean. “I’ve never seen ...

1. Sargassum floats in island-like masses that don’t attach to the seafloor. Once it washes ashore, it’s referred to as beach wrack. 2. Researchers said 2023 could have the largest sargassum bloom ...

Sargassum is increasingly scarfing human-generated nutrients from tainted ocean waters, a harmful binge altering the very chemical structure of the living membrane that can smother luckless beaches in ...

Large patches of Sargassum adrift near the island of Saint Martin Image by VELY Michel - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0. Large patches of Sargassum adrift near the island of Saint Martin Image by VELY Michel ...