(NEXSTAR) – Blobs of seaweed amassing in the Atlantic Ocean grew to a collective 5.5 million tons last month, an increase over the record-breaking quantity reached in December. The vast majority of ...

(NEXSTAR) – As the spring break travel season nears, a threat to serene beach vacations lurks in the ocean: 9 million metric tons of sargassum seaweed. That’s a huge increase from last month, when 5.5 ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Near-record amounts of seaweed are smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados, killing fish and other wildlife, choking tourism and releasing stinky, noxious ...

Brian Lapointe, an algae bloom expert at Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, is deep into his research on to to best dispose of large sargassum mats landing on Florida ...

Researchers have been working to track and study floating sargassum, a prolific seaweed swamping Caribbean and West African shorelines, and causing environmental and economic harm Researchers have ...

(NEXSTAR) – As the spring break travel season nears, a threat to serene beach vacations lurks in the ocean: 9 million metric tons of sargassum seaweed. That’s a huge increase from last month, when 5.5 ...