A University of South Florida researcher thinks he has figured out why there’s so much brown, moss-like algae that causes that rotten egg smell on the Caribbean Sea and Gulf Coast beaches. Biological ...

Researchers identified a strong negative North Atlantic Oscillation in 2009--2010 as the tipping point that pushed sargassum into the tropical Atlantic, confirming vertical mixing, not rivers, as the ...

A record amount of sargassum piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, and more is expected this month, according to a new report. The brown prickly algae is suffocating shorelines from ...

Remember the massive sargassum bloom that blanketed Southwest Florida beaches last summer? Of course you don't, because we didn't get hammered by the floating mass of seaweed, predators and prey.

July 23 (UPI) --At the United Nations Ocean Conference in June, Dominican President Luis Abinader issued an urgent call to recognize the scale of the environmental crisis posed by sargassum in the ...