MIAMI - For the last few months, what was a massive mat of Sargassum seaweed was heading in our direction and threatening to wash up on our shores. The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt stretched 5,000 ...

Massive Sargassum blooms sweeping across the Caribbean and Atlantic are fueled by a powerful nutrient partnership: phosphorus ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — In recent weeks, Central Florida beaches have seemingly had a reprieve from brown blobs of seaweed known as sargassum. However, more than 13 million tons of that seaweed is ...

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, ...

Sargassum seaweed is creating major new obstacles for sea turtle hatchlings, drastically slowing their crawl to the ocean and ...

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 ...

USF researchers said Floridians should see a lot more sargassum at the beach, especially on the east coast. The latest research shows levels in April were more than 200% higher than they were last ...

Sargassum seaweed mats both help and hinder Florida sea turtle hatchlings. Sargassum seaweed washing up on Florida’s shores in record amounts is becoming a serious threat to vulnerable sea turtle ...

A record amount of sargassum is lurking in the Atlantic Ocean, just east of Florida, and could blanket Treasure Coast beaches this summer with the stinky and prickly seaweed. While it may be annoying ...

Sargassum swimming crabs live in floating seaweed in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico (renamed by the U.S. government as Gulf of America). They are camouflaged and small but aggressive ...