In the open ocean, islands of sargassum create a rich ecosystem that ocean explorer Sylvia Earle calls “a golden floating rainforest.” Suspended by round “berries” filled with gas, the seaweed offers ...

Seaweed Greens has discovered how to remove pollutants from sargassum to make organic fertilizer and other environmentally regenerative products.

Ever expanded masses of seaweed are choking the Atlantic ocean and becoming a menace to beaches in Mexico and the Caribbean. The massive sargassum blooms are a threat to biodiversity, fisheries ...

A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean is expected in the next few months to wash onto beaches in the Caribbean Sea, South Florida, and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.

NOAA is monitoring and tracking sargassum. They provide online forecasts and near-real-time conditions. NOAA satellites ...

Headlines from various media outlets have painted a grim picture of a monstrous blob of seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean they say could blanket Florida's beaches and ruin the summer for millions. It ...

During the summer, vast, floating islands of Sargassum algae can blanket entire parts of the tropical Atlantic Ocean. The algae reached their largest extent on record in June 2018, forming a giant ...

According to scientists who monitor the formation of sargassum in the Atlantic Ocean, 2023 could produce the largest bloom ever recorded.That's bad news for destinations like Miami and Fort ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – A giant floating blob of Sargassum seaweed, floating in the Atlantic Ocean, can be detected and tracked all the way from space.It is already 5,000 miles long and an estimated 13 ...

Most of the massive sargassum belt is still floating out in the central Atlantic Ocean, where it doesn’t pose too many problems. The issues start when the seaweed washes ashore, rots and emits ...

Blooms of of smelly, toxic seaweed shattered records in May, growing to over 37 million tons and inundating beaches. If it’s not bad enough already, the amount of seaweed is expected to grow … ...