Clumps of the brownish seaweed known as sargassum have long washed up on Caribbean coastlines, but researchers say the algae blooms have exploded in extent and frequency in recent years.

Conditions over the past decade around the Caribbean Sea, North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, however, have been anything but normal. Since 2011, vast mats of sargassum seaweed have been washing up ...

“We need a Sargassum Emergency Agency since it ... With reports and photographs of seaweed-covered Caribbean beaches making the rounds on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, Secretary General ...

What happened next was pure serendipity. One of Henry’s undergraduates, Brittney McKenzie, commuted to the lab every day past ...

The onslaught of seaweed reeked of rotten eggs ... Many studies have quantified arsenic concentrations in sargassum across the Caribbean in an attempt to assess its scope. But concentrations ...

A University of Miami doctoral student is investigating a potential link between sargassum compost and high arsenic levels in ...

Scientists are pretty sure they know where the seaweed is coming from. Now they want to know why it’s here ... van Tussenbroek arrived at National Auto­nomous University of Mexico in Puerto Morelos, a ...

Sargassum blooms have become almost an annual event in the Caribbean since 2011. There are "strong signs" this year will be "another major year" for seaweed, according to the University of South ...

Lapointe is talking about a floating seaweed known as sargassum ... mounds of it fouling beaches in the Caribbean and Mexico. No one’s talking about protecting sargassum anymore, Lapointe ...

Mexico is gearing up for sargassum season and taking steps to protect popular tourist beaches near ports of call.

Mexico is ramping up efforts to combat the annual sargassum seaweed invasion along the shores of major tourist destinations like Tulum, Playa del Carmen and Mahahual. As part of its Sargassum Response ...

Washing up on our shores this week, we found small patches of fresh sargassum seaweed, large lightning whelks—which happen to be the Texas state shell—and a fascinating little creature known ...