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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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." ...