A research team tracked and studied floating sargassum in order to unlock its potential to be used to produce sustainable products. Researchers have been working to track and study floating sargassum, ...

Midsummer is usually when sargassum, the floating seaweed that often washes up in malodorous piles on Florida beaches, starts to wane. But not this year. Total amounts of the floating seaweed in the ...

Most of the troubles plaguing the subtropical waters of Florida and the Caribbean revolve around disappearing marine life: coral reefs, fish populations, sea grass beds. It’s decidedly the opposite ...

Satellite images from researchers at the University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Laboratory compare sargassum coverage this year to previous years. This May’s sargassum bloom is visibly ...

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 ...

Jamaican fisherman Romain Betty, who lives in the coastal town of Manchioneal, says the sargassum seaweed matts in local waters are sometimes so thick it can be difficult to run outboard motors. Most ...