The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum bloom has already broken its own size record by millions of tons — and the growing ...

Sargassum is back just in time for the unofficial start of summer and this year’s influx of the brown algae would be record breaking at 31 million tons. Sargassum is a genus of large brown seaweed.

Unfortunately, so are tons of toxic seaweed. Sargassum is a beneficial resource in the Atlantic. But on Florida's beaches, sargassum piles up, produces an epic and harmful stench as it rots ...

Scientists at the University of South Florida's Optical Oceanography Lab project that this year's sargassum mass may exceed all records. On April 30, they estimated a 40 percent increase over the ...

Massive amounts of sargassum seaweed, up to the knee and waist, have washed up on the Texas coast, bringing plenty with it, like creepy dolls and sea turtles. The Harte Research Institute (HRI ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Sargassum is washing up along the entire Texas coast and locally on Padre Island and Mustang Island. Experts said it is a challenge to determine how much of the floating ...

from Sargassum. Seaweed is known to absorb metal ions from seawater, with some species accumulating up to 40% of their dry weight as minerals. That’s not where the seaweed story ends.