Lapointe is talking about a floating seaweed known as sargassum in a region of the Atlantic called the Sargasso Sea. The boundaries of this sea are vague, defined not by landmasses but by five ...

The sea without shores: an ecosystem teeming with life, yet notorious for creating seaweed that invades beaches with its foul ...

Forecasts and the seaweed already washing up suggest that 2024 will be another alarming year. The Sargasso Sea is often referred to as a golden, floating rainforest for its vast floating sargassum ...

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As someone who’s lived in Mexico since 2018, I wrote this article to help you avoid the Cancun beaches seaweed issue, so that you have a nice vacation. I’ve personally visited Cancun numerous ...

The 2015 seaweed invasion appears to be a bumper ... is a floating brownish algae that generally blooms in the Sargasso Sea, a 2 million-square-mile (3 million-square-kilometer) body of warm ...

Washing up on our shores this week, we found small patches of fresh sargassum seaweed, large lightning whelks—which happen to ...

They build ships of steel nowadays; some of them approach 1,000 feet in length and 60,000 tons in displacement. But the little steamer Arcturus that slipped out of New York Harbor, last week, is ...

Beachgoers pick their way past seaweed on Wednesday ... HUDSON: How much sargassum is out there way out at sea right now? BARNES: There's a lot. Right now, I think we have around 4 million ...

Scientists have uncovered the mystery of where baby green sea turtles spend their ‘lost ... technology found them floating on mats of seaweed in the Sargasso Sea. The new knowledge could help ...

Mexico is ramping up efforts to combat the annual sargassum seaweed invasion along the shores of major tourist destinations like Tulum, Playa del Carmen and Mahahual. As part of its Sargassum Response ...