When beachgoers say there's a brown blob of seaweed floating in the ocean, they really mean it. And aerial images taken by veteran Palm Beach Post photographer Greg Lovett show just what it looks like ...

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) – For the past few months, scientists have been sounding the alarm about a 5,000-mile long belt of seaweed that was threatening to wreak havoc on Florida and Caribbean beaches. The bloom of ...

(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 ...

Punta Tuna beach in Maunabo, Puerto Rico covered with decaying sargassum on May 15, 2021. Source - BrickLightning, Public Domain Punta Tuna beach in Maunabo, Puerto Rico covered with decaying ...

Here’s a handy geography question for your next trivia match: What is the world’s only sea that doesn’t have a land border? The answer is the Sargasso Sea – a 2-million-square-nautical-mile haven of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – Massive clumps of smelly, toxic ...

Just as experts thought Mexico’s sargassum season was over, the seaweed came back with a vengeance, covering beaches in ...

A record amount of sargassum is lurking in the Atlantic Ocean, just east of Florida, and could blanket Treasure Coast beaches this summer with the stinky and prickly seaweed. While it may be annoying ...

I was off work last week to spend time with family at the beach. The vacation was amazing, and I was thankful to get away, but when we arrived in the Dominican Republic, we encountered something we ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. But something unexpected has happened, the ...