Massive Sargassum blooms sweeping across the Caribbean and Atlantic are fueled by a powerful nutrient partnership: phosphorus ...

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

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

The 21-year-old biology major was named a Rhodes scholar for her research on ways to turn sargassum seaweed into a source of ...

Rotting seaweed has been ruining Caribbean beaches, and the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is to blame. But the problem is ...

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

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 ...

(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 ...

A very encouraging situation is unfolding in the Dominican Republic’s leading tourist destination: the Sargassum has almost ...

Florida vacations are back on, sans stinky seaweed. The record-breaking mass of stinky seaweed that began appearing on Florida’s iconic beaches this spring, known as the Great Atlantic Sargassum ...

You’ve planned the perfect beach day — good book, sun screen, cooler full of your favorite beverage — but as you approach the shore, you see them: massive clumps of brown spiky seaweed. Your heart ...

(NEXSTAR) – Massive clumps of smelly, toxic seaweed threaten to wash up on beaches across Florida and the Caribbean again this year. Last month, the bloom “increased so substantially that the ...