Sargassum patches cover up sea turtle nesting sites and overwhelm mangroves, important nurseries for aquatic species. In some areas, beaches have eroded due to algae removal using heavy machinery ...

Photograph by David Doubilet The two predominant species of sargassum in the Sargasso Sea are the only seaweeds in the world that don’t begin life attached to the seafloor. As a consequence of ...

Researchers identified a strong negative North Atlantic Oscillation in 2009--2010 as the tipping point that pushed sargassum into the tropical Atlantic, confirming vertical mixing, not rivers ...

Now, one Mexican entrepreneur is building houses out of bricks made from the invasive species. More from World Wide Waste Millions of tons of sargassum wash up on beaches across North America ...

and to young fish hiding in floating sargassum seaweed, which may have collected oil and increased the fish’s exposure. On May 24, 2010, the Center petitioned the federal government to protect ...