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

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

I study the intersection of critical infrastructure and disasters, particularly in the Caribbean. The sargassum invasion has worsened since it exploded in the region in 2011. Forecasts and the ...

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

Over the past four years, they’ve cleared 200 tons. It’s the same story all across the Caribbean. While small amounts of sargassum benefit marine life, the large blooms since 2011 have ...

Sargassum is floating macroalgae that has inundated beaches in the Caribbean since 2011, impacting tourism, harming the health of humans and marine life, and costing local governments millions of ...

Sargassum is floating macroalgae that has inundated beaches in the Caribbean since 2011, impacting tourism, harming the health of humans and marine life, and costing local governments millions of ...

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Learn about our Editorial Policies. In 1989, marine biologist Brigitta van Tussenbroek arrived at National Auto­nomous University of Mexico in Puerto Morelos, a small village on the Caribbean coast ...

Clumps of the brownish seaweed known as sargassum have long washed up on Caribbean coastlines, but researchers say the algae blooms have exploded in extent and frequency in recent years.

Unusually large masses of sargassum have been washing ashore in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and elsewhere, fouling beaches in tourist destinations. Photograph by David Doubilet Sargassum ...

Mexico’s Riviera Maya Caribbean coast provides half the country’s tourism revenues, and very little sargassum reached it prior to 2014. But a possible combination of climate change ...