Resource managers in South Florida have a new tool in their fight against Sargassum thanks to a five-year, $3.2-million grant ...

Moment, Ah-Hy u ng Alissa Park, and colleagues have developed an alkaline thermal treatment to break down the polysaccharid e ...

and examples include the brown seaweeds called sargassum and kelp. Sargassum floats near the water’s surface, while kelp is anchored to rocks on the ocean floor. Both of these types of algae feed and ...

Playa del Carmen and Tulum have been disgusted by foul-smelling mounds of sargassum – a seaweed-like algae – piling up on beaches and turning turquoise waters brown, and experts are warning ...

Swimming among these algae and then pretending to surface is like pulling a spoon out of a very thick soup. Sargassum is plant material, it gets tangled in the hair and traps between its nets.

Chameleon shrimp can change their color to camouflage themselves among the algae they inhabit, helping them to escape from predators. Their appearance shifts from red, brown, green, or even ...

A Finnish algae processing company is considering installing a plant in the Dominican Republic given the negative impact of the sargassum seaweed invasion of its beaches and tourism industry.

The government reports that sargassum typically washes ashore between ... For some species of marine life, the brown algae is considered to be helpful, and biologists believe that the buildup ...