It’s the season for seaweed, and researchers say it’s back with a vengeance: the month of April broke records for the amount of sargassum in the tropical Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea.

Millions of tons of seaweed currently floating in the tropical Atlantic Ocean could soon make its way toward the U.S., according to researchers following the phenomenon.

During typical years, the Florida Keys may see widespread reports during the late spring, with more significant impacts ...

The Department of Agriculture and Fisheries has partnered with the University of the Sunshine Coast, Fiji Ministry of ...

I you have plans to head to the Caribbean, Mexico or south Florida, be aware you might have to fight your way to the shoreline. What to know about sargassum.

Seaweed farms, particularly those in Southeast Asia, are commonly in the very same environments where seagrass meadows thrive. Competition for resources ensues. Evidence shows that tropical ...

The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands ... as tourists don’t want mounds of sargassum to mar their tropical views. “The tourists check out, and they don ...

Difficulty of scaling creates more risk, leading to challenges gaining investment. Furthermore, the increasing impact of rising temperatures on yields in tropical regions has the potential, in the ...

This all results in more intense growth of sargassum in the tropical Atlantic. The piles of noxious seaweed on the Caribbean islands' white sandy beaches are putting off visitors to these islands ...

When it comes to marine plants, none are more common than seaweed. Especially because many of the most well-known aquatic plants including sargassum, kelp, red algae and phytoplankton are all ...