Scientists in the Caribbean are turning algae that have been choking beaches into biofuel.

Sargassum seaweed was once considered to be a "critical ecosystem for oceanic species," however, the recent surge is beginning to kill marine life in Florida. According to Keys News, eels, parrotfish, ...

India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Wednesday offered the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to fight transnational crime, supply ferry vessels and convert the troublesome sargassum seaweed ...

Image by Lautaro Isern. 2024. Every year, vast quantities of sargassum seaweed wash up on the shores of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, threatening coastal communities’ economies and ecosystems.

The 2015 seaweed invasion appears to be a bumper ... Brian Lapointe, a sargassum expert at Florida Atlantic University, says that while the sargassum washing up in normal amounts has long been ...

Sargassum is a brown seaweed that spends its life floating on the ocean’s surface. While it is naturally beneficial to the marine ecosystems in the open ocean, once it reaches the coast ...

There’s a problem piling up on the shores of Mexico's famous Yucatan Peninsula. Since 2011, a brown seaweed called sargassum has been drifting onto the popular beaches of Quintana Roo. In 2019, it got ...

Scientists said on Thursday they found what is believed to be the world's largest coral, which has been growing undisturbed ...

“Think of all the plastic debris that just went into the water because of the hurricanes,” McCormick said. Vibrio can also combine with smelly sargassum seaweed. Fortunately, none of that stuff is ...

(Volusia County) MARINELAND, FL – As storm clouds loom over coastal ... swim out to the line of sargassum seaweed located 50-100 miles offshore. However, fall storms and strong ocean currents ...