Conditions can change overnight so it can be very unpredictable. Technically the seaweed that has arrived on Mexico’s ...

A floating mass of seaweed stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico is now the biggest seaweed bloom in the world, according to satellite observations. The algal explosion in the Atlantic ...

An infestation of a seaweed-like algae along some of Mexico's most visited Caribbean beaches has pitted the local community against the president, who has described the problem as a "minor issue".

The seaweed may seem unremarkable at first glance ... mounds of it fouling beaches in the Caribbean and Mexico. No one’s talking about protecting sargassum anymore, Lapointe says.

An curved arrow pointing right. Millions of tons of sargassum wash up on beaches across North America every year. Exposure can lead to breathing problems, and it costs millions to clean it up. Now ...

Sargassum is a benign brown seaweed that produces oxygen and provides habitat for crabs, fish, and birds. It floats in patches in the Gulf of Mexico and the Sargasso Sea (which gets its name from ...

In Mexico, 0.1 million tons of sargassum seaweed washes up on beaches. 15 billion trees are cut down every year and only about 10 billion of them are replaced. We have a net loss of forest every ...