Sargassum, the stinky brown-and-green seaweed piling up along Florida beaches, is getting worse thanks to warmer seas, ...

Some hatchlings may need rehabilitation and taken by boat offshore after being trapped in seaweed, or washing back to the beach with it.

The amount of sargassum washing ashore in Palm Beach has surged in July, marking a noticeable uptick from earlier this summer ...

NOAA is monitoring and tracking sargassum. They provide online forecasts and near-real-time conditions. NOAA satellites ...

A Coastal Carolina University (CCU) professor spoke with ABC 15 about some brown seaweed that can make it's way to the Grand ...

A woman sunbathes on a beach during the sargassum seaweed in Playa del Carmen, Mexico on June 3, 2025. REUTERS As part of the Mexican government’s response, officials planned to focus on ...

The seaweed also releases smelly compounds into the air as it rots, Jen said. The smell stems from hydrogen sulfide, one of the main compounds in sargassum, which contributes to a rotten egg smell.

A record amount of sargassum piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, and more is expected this month, according to a new report. The brown prickly algae is suffocating shorelines ...

Sargassum has long been a part of the Atlantic ecosystem. It naturally accumulates in the Sargasso Sea, a region known for its calm waters and floating mats of seaweed. But since 2011, a new ...

Researchers have been wondering if sargassum can be used as fertilizer, and whether or not it can help reduce the cost for farmers and those who eat the food grown on U.S. soil.

Sargassum swimming crabs live in floating seaweed in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico (renamed by the U.S. government as Gulf of America). They are camouflaged and small but aggressive ...