The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum bloom has already ...

The University of South Florida College of Marine Science estimated the sargassum blob to be around 13 million tons – a ...

A smelly, sometimes toxic “killer belt of seaweed” might put a damper on Floridians’ Memorial Day weekend plans. Sargassum is ...

An estimated 31 million tons of smelly brown seaweed is floating int eh Atlantic this year, experts say, and Florida beaches ...

While there are many different types of algae found floating in the ocean across world, the Sargasso Sea is unique in that it harbors species of sargassum that are "holopelagic." That means the algae ...

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, sargassum contains pelagic species of brown seaweed that originate offshore in the Atlantic Ocean and float on the ocean surface.

Sargassum is essentially just brown macroalgae, which is more commonly known to us as seaweed. There are hundreds of different species of sargassum, according to USF. The two most dominant are ...

While there are many different types of algae found floating in the ocean across world, the Sargasso Sea is unique in that it harbors species of sargassum that are "holopelagic." That means the ...

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, sargassum contains pelagic species of brown seaweed that originate offshore in the Atlantic Ocean and float on the ocean surface. " ...