Levels of floating seaweed mats, known as sargassum, have skyrocketed in the Atlantic Ocean in the past month, with the total ...

Lapointe is talking about a floating seaweed known as sargassum in a region of the Atlantic called the Sargasso Sea. The boundaries of this sea are vague, defined not by landmasses but by five ...

The Riviera Maya on Mexico’s Caribbean coast is seeing an increase of up to 50% more sargassum seaweed on its beaches this ...

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

Researchers think the Gulf will start to see more seaweed, or sargassum, in the coming weeks. From there it can travel on the ...

Beach managers are constrained to what areas of the beach they can clean during turtle nesting season, which began March 1.

Forecasts and the seaweed already washing up suggest that 2024 will be another alarming year. The Sargasso Sea is often referred to as a golden, floating rainforest for its vast floating sargassum ...

The 2015 seaweed invasion appears to be a bumper ... is a floating brownish algae that generally blooms in the Sargasso Sea, a 2 million-square-mile (3 million-square-kilometer) body of warm ...

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

Sargassum was moved from the Sargasso Sea to the tropics via currents depicted by arrows. Credit: Figure from Jouanno et al. (2025). The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has puzzled researchers since ...

It is commonly supposed that this area of the Atlantic is so thick with seaweed that ships cannot penetrate it. Although it is indeed strewn with floating Sargassum, it is actually a biological desert ...

Riviera Maya officials have begun preparing for the annual arrival of sargassum, a species of seaweed that grows in the Caribbean and, in spring through autumn, washes up in great numbers along the ...