Sargassum seaweed is a problem throughout the Caribbean. But scientists have plans to transform it into a source of renewable ...

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

Barnes said that there is currently a large amount off the Florida Keys, but not a lot has come ashore. This map shows sargassum seaweed concentrations for March of 2025 across the Atlantic Basin.

“This is kind of where we’ve been for the last five years in our data products,” said Brain Barnes, Research Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida. Sargassum ...

There has so far been little to no seaweed reported in the Gulf of Mexico and western Caribbean Sea. Southeast Florida and the Florida Keys will be largely free of the sargassum until late May ...

A University of South Florida researcher thinks he has figured ... are behind the massive blooms creating the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. The study, published in Nature Communications, explains ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A 5,000-mile-long blob of smelly seaweed is on its way to Florida. It's called sargassum, and it's getting bigger because of warming temperatures. More from News A ...

Massive sargassum seaweed blooms in the past few years ... Distinguished University Professor and biological oceanographer at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science. "But these ...

Researchers identified a strong negative North Atlantic Oscillation in 2009--2010 as the tipping point that pushed sargassum into ... and the University of South Florida.