While levels continue to be low in the Gulf and the Caribbean Sea, amounts of seaweed in the western and eastern Atlantic exceed the 75 percentile, with more than 7 million metric tons detected. "As ...

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

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

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 ...

Since 2011, massive, episodic influxes of floating sargassum seaweed on Caribbean shorelines have emerged as a coastal hazard and a recurring economic shock to tourism-dependent Small Island ...

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

The inviting white-sand beaches and aquamarine inshore waters of many a Caribbean isle are now foul-smelling lagoons laden with noxious, decaying seaweed. Sargassum is actually a naturally ...

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 ...