If you’ve been on the coasts of Florida in the last couple of weeks, you’ve probably seen bunches of brown seaweed washing up on the shore. That’s called sargassum. It’s a macro algae that blows ...

The Puntacana Foundation, together with the Inter-University Network for Sargassum Research (Sargard), hosted an ...

Florida International University has a Sargassum Watch website for tracking sargassum. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has a weekly sargassum inundation risk site. University of ...

TULUM, Mexico (AP) — Scraping the smelly sargassum seaweed off some beaches on Mexico’s resort-studded Caribbean coast has become not only a nightmare, but possibly a health threat, for the workers ...

A record amount of sargassum seaweed is lurking in the Atlantic Ocean, just east of Florida. Sargassum is a yellowish-brown floating macroalgae that crabs, sea turtles, shrimp and other marine life ...

Stinking mats of rotting seaweed are already starting to pile up on beaches across the Caribbean. These mega-blooms of slimy brown algae called sargassum were once seldom seen — but climate change and ...

Florida's beaches are hit by smelly sargassum blooms. A new study estimates costs at $3.63 billion annually. Here's why it ...

Over the last month, massive quantities of the Sargassum seaweed have been washing up on the shores of Mexico, Florida in the US and some Caribbean islands, creating a serious environmental problem ...

In 2019, Legena Henry, SM ’10, and the students in her renewable energy course at the University of the West Indies in Barbados wondered how to help their island stop using fossil fuel by 2030. Their ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — 2025 is likely to be a “major” year for Sargassum seaweed, which occurs in thick mats that sometimes inundate Florida beaches. University of South Florida researchers track ...

Seaweed accumulation is a regular issue for Palm Beach County during sargassum, seaweed season, which typically runs from March to October. University of South Florida reported a record 13 million ...