Researchers Brian Barnes, Yuyuan Xie and Chuanmin Hu at the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science used satellite imagery to determine monthly amounts of sargassum in the ...

Santo Domingo.-The Dominican Republic’s Minister of Tourism, David Collado, has allocated US$1 million to the Interuniversity Network for Research on the Management and Treatment of Sargassum. The ...

Located on the top floor of the Florida State University Museum of Fine Art (MoFA), the “Homo Sargassum” exhibit explores the environmental implications of the sargassum algae and how the algae have ...

Researchers have found that the taller the Japanese black pine trees (Pinus thunbergii) along the coast, the deeper their roots penetrate the ground. Deeper roots make trees more resistant to ...

P. thunbergii trees are very resistant to tsunamis, strong winds, and blowing sand because their strong roots grow straight down and deep. Such trees should offer protection to houses and fields ...

Conditions can change overnight so it can be very unpredictable. Technically the seaweed that has arrived on Mexico’s Caribbean coast is called sargassum (“sargazo” in Spanish), which is a type of ...