The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, a thick mass of leafy, floating seaweed stretching across 5,000 miles of ocean, is forecast to be a nuisance of record-breaking proportions this year. In May, ...

It's coming. Floating across the ocean's surface in brown, island-sized masses, observers have likened the Sargassum Sea to a horror story "blob." Although seaweed itself might not be so scary, a ...

Brian Lapointe, an algae bloom expert at Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, is deep into his research on to to best dispose of large sargassum mats landing on Florida ...

Stinky, unsightly and potentially harmful – there are a litany of adjectives used to describe the naturally-occurring type of macroalgae called Sargassum, and none of them are positive. Sargassum has ...

A study led by researchers at the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science has found that certain populations of the seaweed sargassum have experienced a significant decline over the ...

Beachgoers pick their way past seaweed on Wednesday, July 11, 2018, in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla. The brownish looking seaweed variety is called sargassum and is flooding the shores of South Florida this ...

A record-breaking 37-million-ton mass of floating seaweed called sargassum is once again inundating beaches in the Caribbean and will soon reach parts of the U.S. A diver swims beneath a mass of ...

Every day, Christine Jimenez-Mariani flips open her laptop and starts sorting through the latest pictures of rotting piles of seaweed that have landed in her inbox. The dozens of images she receives ...

Now, a new study published in the Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering reports that sargassum seaweed could be transformed into the next generation of eco-friendly building blocks. The ...

If you’ve made a trip to Galveston Island recently, you may have noticed large mounds of smelly sargassum, a unique type of seaweed that washes ashore. But is it harmful? And why are we seeing so much ...