Despite a record-breaking Sargassum bloom in the Atlantic, Florida is not expected to see significant seaweed impacts due to favorable ocean currents and improved satellite forecasting.

A large amount of sargassum has been measured in offshore waters east of Florida. Will the seaweed reach Palm Beach County ...

In this sunlit surface layer, photosynthesis occurs and sargassum grows, thus fueling the massive blooms that eventually end ...

Time will tell,” Lapointe said. The mats of drifting sargassum covered with berry-like sacs have become so numerous in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean they are even drifting as far away ...

For 36 years Lapointe, a biologist with Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute in Fort Pierce, has combed the Sargasso Sea, observing sargassum by satellite and ...

Will your next trip to Florida's beaches be filled with stinky seaweed? Here's what to know about sargassum and where it ...

Mexico’s Riviera Maya Caribbean coast provides half the country’s tourism revenues, and very little sargassum reached ... beaches can make it harder for sea turtles to nest.

Sargassum seaweed, a common brown algae, grown in large masses and known for its rough texture and toothlike edge is typically found along Florida’s Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean Sea.

Sargassum, a type of brown seaweed, is expected to increase on Florida's shores in the coming weeks. The University of South Florida predicts a significant sargassum season in 2025. Red tide is ...