Sargassum washes ashore in large, smelly mats. Clearing it away isn't easy. Lhote/Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The Caribbean’s sandy beaches, clear turquoise water and vibrant coral ...

Florida's beaches are hit by smelly sargassum blooms. A new study estimates costs at $3.63 billion annually. Here's why it ...

Off the eastern coast of North America, free-floating brown seaweed called sargassum makes up what's known as the Sargasso Sea — the only sea without a land boundary, bounded instead by four ocean ...

In the vast expanse of the North Atlantic lies a unique region known as the Sargasso Sea, the only sea on Earth with no shoreline. A new study, published in the Frontiers in Marine Science, explores ...

Floating in the middle of the North Atlantic, hundreds of miles from any coastline, the Sargasso Sea defies typical geographic logic—it’s a sea without a shore. According to a 2023 study published in ...

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 ...

If you have ever heard of the Sargasso Sea, raise your hand. How about sargassum seaweed? Never heard of either one, you shouldn’t feel bad. The Sargasso Sea is located in the middle of the Atlantic ...

From Jomoro through Ahanta West to parts of Nzema East, the shoreline of Ghana’s Western Region tells a troubling story. Each ...

Florida’s beaches suffer regular and random assaults from mats of malodorous sargassum and now there’s a price tag on what the incursions may be costing the state. A new study from Woods Hole ...

Machine learning and other modeling approaches could aid in forecasting the arrival of floating Sargassum rafts that clog ...

Algae blooms are expanding across the world's oceans. The first global study of floating algae was recently released by researchers at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science and the ...

Scientists are trying to identify the reasons behind the phenomenon of seaweed buildup periodically blanketing Galveston beaches and other locales along the Texas coast, which has turned into a ...