The giant seaweed blob that has been piling up on beaches on the Florida coast — posing risks to sea life, human respiratory health and tourism — could carry an added threat: illness-inducing bacteria ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

It used to be that the conversation around subtropical marine life centered on declines: the death of coral beds, the diminishing variety of seagrasses, the disappearance of fish. But for now, it's an ...

Massive amounts of sargassum seaweed are returning to South Florida beaches from Miami to Fort Lauderdale. Here's how the smelly seaweed can impact your beach-going experience this year. Sargassum is ...

Florida beaches have become inundated by a massive seaweed bloom originating from the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt since reports first made headlines in early March. Now researchers say the intricate ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — You may have heard about the vast mats of smelly sargassum seaweed washing up along the coast of southeast Florida. A new study from Florida Atlantic University is uncovering how ...

Costa Maya, Mexico has collected over 400 tons of seaweed from September 20-26, a massive amount from two major beaches: Mahahual and Xcalak. According to Riviera Maya News, the Mexican Navy is ...

A record-breaking 37.5 million metric tons of seaweed was detected during May, with biologists warning that some Caribbean resorts may be blanketed by the naturally-occurring phenomenon during the ...

MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - Marine science experts warned beachgoers to watch where they step this weekend after sargassum seaweed washed up on South Florida’s coastlines. 7News captures captured the ...