According to the January 2025 sargassum update, residents and visitors across the Virgin Islands may soon begin to notice an ...

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.

“We need a Sargassum Emergency Agency since it ... With reports and photographs of seaweed-covered Caribbean beaches making the rounds on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, Secretary General ...

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 ...

People travel from all over the world to experience the stunning beauty of the Caribbean, but now some of the best beaches ...

Tons of sargassum — seaweed — is floating far out in the Atlantic Ocean. It could begin coming ashore in the spring.

Scientists are pretty sure they know where the seaweed is coming from. Now they want to know why it’s here ... van Tussenbroek arrived at National Auto­nomous University of Mexico in Puerto Morelos, a ...

The ongoing research showed that sagrassum amounts in the Gulf of Mexico, western Caribbean ... increase in sargassum from November as a result of both local blooms and seaweed traveling west ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — 2025 is likely to be a “major” year for Sargassum seaweed, which occurs in thick mats that sometimes inundate Florida beaches. University of South Florida researchers track ...

A five-year collaboration between New Zealand and Caribbean scientists has developed a biostimulant – a liquid that can be used by farmers to enhance the health and yield of their crops – from ...

has come in for praise from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Private Sector Organization (CPSO) on the success of its proposal in the Sargassum Innovation Quest: Building Resilient Coastal ...

In 2024, the total amount of sargassum that had shored up on the coasts of the Caribbean Sea reached 10 million tonnes.