It smells like rotten eggs, releases toxic gases, endangers sea life and scuttles vacations. Scientists, startups and ...

Beaches across the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic coast of Florida are disappearing under thick, rotting ...

The months-long threat of sargassum may be clearing up in time for summer. Inside the June report from the University of South Florida, scientists have noticed a sharp decline in the seaweed that's ...

A record-breaking amount of sargassum seaweed could be on its way to South Florida, with one expert stating, “The worst is yet to come.” Dr. Chuanmin Hu, a professor of Oceanography at the University ...

Sargassum seaweed is nothing to sneeze at, and judging by interest in people googling the topic, it's a topic people around the world are taking seriously — at least when it comes to finding out where ...

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

A record amount of sargassum was forecast to wash ashore Florida's beaches this year, and town officials prepared well in advance to manage it. But while the often smelly, brown- and tan-colored ...

Every day, Christine Jimenez-Mariani flips open her laptop and starts sorting through the latest pictures of rotting piles of seaweed that have landed in her inbox. The dozens of images she receives ...

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A massive sargassum bloom that stretches from near the coast of Africa through the Caribbean Sea and into the Gulf of Mexico has decreased in volume compared to its January girth, offering a "glimmer ...

The amount of sargassum in the Gulf of Mexico not only decreased in June, but the drop exceeded expectations, according to the June report from the University of South Florida. The trend of decreasing ...