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

Conditions over the past decade around the Caribbean Sea, North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, however, have been anything but normal. Since 2011, vast mats of sargassum seaweed have been washing up ...

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

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 ...

Philippe Maréchal shows a sargassum bloom, which has affected parts of the Caribbean since 2011 | Earth And The Environment ...

A diver floats beneath a mass of sargassum, pierced by shafts of sunlight, near Cozumel, Mexico. Unusually large masses of sargassum have been washing ashore in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean ...

MÉRIDA, Mexico - The Mexican government has announced plans to intensify efforts to combat the annual influx of sargassum seaweed along the shores of its major tourism hubs, as the seasonal ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Millions of tons of sargassum wash up on beaches across North America every year. Exposure can lead to breathing problems, and it costs millions to clean it up.

A USF study found that vertical currents are likely behind the algae blooms that dump sargassum onto Florida beaches each ...

View Full Profile. 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 ...

A time lapsed model depicting interannual Sargassum blooms in the North Atlantic. The alga was pushed southward and injected into the tropics, where it proliferates today, through a series of currents ...

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 ...