Philippe Maréchal shows a sargassum bloom, which has affected parts of the Caribbean since 2011 | Earth And The Environment ...

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has puzzled researchers since 2011. A new model demonstrates that the alga was brought to the tropics by strong currents, and thrived in ideal growing conditions.

Beach managers are constrained to what areas of the beach they can clean during turtle nesting season, which began March 1.

Riviera Maya officials have begun preparing for the annual arrival of sargassum, a species of seaweed that grows in the Caribbean and, in spring through autumn, washes up in great numbers along the ...

which one recognizes by the large amounts of Sargassum seaweed that cover the sea’s surface. The sea sits above what scientists refer to as the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, which runs from the ...

Dubbed the “sargapanel,” the sargassum-sourced construction material was developed by a group of UNAM researchers led by ...

A USF study found that vertical currents are likely behind the algae blooms that dump sargassum onto Florida beaches each ...

MÉRIDA, Mexico - The Mexican government has announced plans to intensify efforts to combat the annual influx of sargassum seaweed along the shores of its major tourism hubs, as the seasonal ...

One of Henry’s undergraduates, Brittney McKenzie, commuted to the lab every day past resort beaches covered in brown mounds of invasive sargassum seaweed. “Why don’t we look at sargassum?” ...

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The Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts and the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies' collaborative ...

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, as the ...