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

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

But some scientists believe the sargassum besieging a growing number of beaches may actually be due to blooms in the Atlantic's equatorial region, perhaps because of a high flow of nutrients from ...

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

While tourist arrivals at the Cancun airport were up 3.3% in March over the same month last year, many fear this will not last long with the sargassum befouling white sand beaches and blue waters ...

Scientists are pretty sure they know where the seaweed is coming from. Now they want to know why it’s here. Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in ...

According to information from the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar) of Quintana Roo, there are currently 16 “free” sargassum beaches in the Cancun and Riviera Maya region among a sample of 48 ...

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 ...