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 ...

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 ...

Last month, researchers found that the seaweed, or sargassum, increased in March throughout the basin, particularly in the eastern Caribbean and tropical Atlantic. Sargassum usually blooms from Ma ...

Massive sargassum seaweed blooms in the past few years, which were among the largest ever recorded, have fouled beaches in the tropical Atlantic with their huge, stinky clumps. Now, scientists have ...

Muller-Karger and a team of researchers analyzed currents, winds and nutrient levels to determine that vertical currents are behind the massive blooms creating the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.