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

With the spring well advanced and the height of summer not all that far away, the trolling still remains productive. Maybe ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

A seaweed belt surrounds boats moored along Dinner Key Marina outside of Monty’s Coconut Grove restaurant in Miami, Florida on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Scientists predict 2025 to be a record seaweed ...

(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 ...

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." ...