A time lapsed model depicting interannual Sargassum blooms in the North Atlantic. The alga was pushed southward and injected into the tropics, where it proliferates today, through a series of ...

TAMPA, Fla. (March 13, 2025) – The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has puzzled researchers since 2011. A recent study published in Nature Communications may have identified what drove a tipping ...

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 ...

Sargassum plants are a nuisance on some beaches, but they are a shelter and a feast for a complex and amazing variety of marine life. A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts ...

Sargassum is actually a naturally occurring algae that blooms in the warm waters of the Sargasso Sea far out in the north-central Atlantic Ocean. But industrial and agricultural pollution running ...

The Department of Environment has started preparing early measures to tackle the massive arrival of sargassum expected in Playa del Carmen in 2025, according to reports from the Oceanographic ...