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 government of Quintana Roo has announced that the 2024 sargassum season is officially over. In the Riviera Maya, ...

its arrival is so unfortunate that there is the Sargassum Monitoring Network, which has already announced that given the call that has been presented in Honduras and the spring season that raises ...

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.