Levels of floating seaweed mats, known as sargassum, have skyrocketed in the Atlantic Ocean in the past month, with the total ...

The seaweed has been inundating several beaches across the Caribbean, completely covering ... on hosting a symposium to find solutions to the problem. “This is a threat not only to our tourism ...

"The issue is that we never know what it's going to be like — we can have a week or two weeks where it's very clear and then all of a sudden overnight it washes in," Larry Basham, chief ...

Since 2011, vast mats of sargassum seaweed have been washing up on Caribbean islands ... little to address the pollution at the root of the problem.

Resource managers in South Florida have a new tool in their fight against Sargassum thanks to a five-year, $3.2-million grant ...

“There is sargassum staged in the western Caribbean,” Barnes said ... and can cause respiratory problems. The amount of the often-stinky seaweed that washes up on beaches has spiked ...

Sargassum is floating macroalgae that has inundated beaches in the Caribbean since 2011, impacting tourism, harming the health of humans and marine life, and costing local governments millions of ...

Moment, Ah-Hy u ng Alissa Park, and colleagues have developed an alkaline thermal treatment to break down the polysaccharid e ...

"Huge, smelly snake of seaweed headed toward the Caribbean." Though the headlines ... while rotten sargassum smells bad and may cause respiratory problems to humans," Yuyuan Xie — an ...