Massive piles of sargassum, the size of which have not been seen before, are floating this way, right now, sure to coat the ...

A record amount of sargassum seaweed is lurking in the Atlantic Ocean, just east of Florida. Sargassum is a yellowish-brown floating macroalgae that crabs, sea turtles, shrimp and other marine life ...

Sargassum is showing up in record high numbers across the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean right now. And it’s arriving ...

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 ...

Scientists are tracking unseasonably large sargassum mats in the Atlantic. Where it will land, if at all, depends on winds ...

A University of South Florida researcher thinks he has figured out why there’s so much brown, moss-like algae that causes that rotten egg smell on the Caribbean Sea and Gulf Coast beaches. Biological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What has been an occasional problem in Florida has turned into an annual scourge as heaps of rotting, stinky brown seaweed pile up ...

While it's finally the time of year of spontaneous and relaxing beach trips for Floridians, it's also the time of year when heavy blankets of smelly seaweed coats our coasts. Sargassum, a naturally ...

In the far off Central Atlantic, near where the Caribbean Sea meets the ocean, scientists are warning of a record amassing of unruly sargassum on a path guided by the whimsy of winds and currents and ...

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is an immense, recurring accumulation of brown macroalgae drifting across the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Composed of the floating seaweed Sargassum, this natural ...

Waves filled with sargassum continue washing up on beaches in the Caribbean Sea and southern Florida and the stacks of seaweed are expected to get worse in the weeks ahead. A record abundance of the ...