Clumps of the brownish seaweed known as sargassum have long washed up on Caribbean coastlines, but researchers say the algae blooms have exploded in extent and frequency in recent years.

When waves of sargassum - a type of seaweed - washed up on Eastern Caribbean shores seven years ago, people hoped it was a one-off. Matted piles swamped coastlines from Tobago to Anguilla.

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 seaweed has inundated beaches, causing an environmental nuisance. As of June 2018, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, as scientists call it, extended 8,850km (5,500 miles) and was made up of ...

The sargassum invasion has worsened since it exploded in the region in 2011. Forecasts and the seaweed already washing up suggest that 2024 will be another alarming year. The Sargasso Sea The ...

One of my undergraduate students, Brittney McKenzie, saw a possible solution. There is a sargassum seaweed crisis in Barbados. One tourist resort was spending US$2 million every year to remove it ...

Invasive sargassum seaweed may be a great source of biogas, turning it into a fuel that can power converted combustion engine ...

Located within the Atlantic, the sea is known for its abundance of shimmering Sargassum seaweed which has earned it the nickname “golden floating forest.” With sunlight filtering through the ...

Soon, mounds of unsightly sargassum – carried by currents from the Sargasso Sea and linked to climate change – were carpeting ...

This year's 5,000-mile-long Sargassum seaweed bloom along the Caribbean and the Florida coast could be the largest ever recorded, NASA predicts, with much of the seaweed expected to wash ashore in ...

A mechanical engineer in Barbados is turning rotting seaweed into biofuel that can power cars and tourism in Barbados without ...