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

The Riviera Maya on Mexico’s Caribbean coast is seeing an increase of up to 50% more sargassum seaweed on its beaches this ...

Researchers think the Gulf will start to see more seaweed, or sargassum, in the coming weeks. From there it can travel on the ...

Beach managers are constrained to what areas of the beach they can clean during turtle nesting season, which began March 1.

There's a variety of hazard levels across Martin County beaches on Monday due to marine life and weather conditions.

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

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 ...

Remember the massive sargassum bloom that blanketed Southwest Florida beaches last summer? Of course you don't, because we didn't get hammered by the floating mass of seaweed, predators and prey.

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

A Finnish algae processing company is considering installing a plant in the Dominican Republic given the negative impact of the sargassum seaweed invasion of its beaches and tourism industry.

Prior to this study, some researchers had blamed Amazonian deforestation for the sargassum blooms. When the macroalgae washes onto the beaches, it rots, releasing hydrogen sulfide and a rotten egg ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Millions of tons of sargassum wash up on beaches across North America every year. Exposure can lead to breathing problems, and it costs millions to clean it up.