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

One longtime local charter fisherman doesn't think the Treasure Coast will be affected as bad as the rest of the state.

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

and in terms of the total amount, we have about 30 million metric tons in the tropical Atlantic and the ... getting back out into the ocean because of the seaweed barrier that's created by sargassum." ...

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

Tons of slimy, brownish, smelly bands of algae float along the southern Atlantic Ocean, where it has washed ashore in Florida, Texas and the Caribbean. But year after year, that algae — better known ...

Known as the Sargasso Sea, sailors have crossed it for centuries, but few notice the border when they slip into glassy indigo ...

While Florida might see blooms of seaweed this season, that doesn’t mean all beaches will be full of it through October. The sargassum will show up on beaches in clumps when the tide is high and the ...

(CNN) — The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum bloom has already broken its own size record by millions of tons — and the ...

It’s the season for seaweed, and researchers say it’s back with a vengeance: the month of April broke records for the amount of sargassum in the tropical Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea.

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 ...