(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

A massive patchy blanket of sargassum seaweed was seen floating in the tropical Atlantic Ocean via satellite in December but it will be weeks or months before scientists know where or when it could ...

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 ...

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 ...