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Mexican authorities say the problem of foul-smelling seaweed-like algae on the country's Caribbean coast beaches is “alarming.” The arrival of heaps of brown sargassum on the coast's normally pristine ...

MEXICO CITY, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic's Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez and top Mexican officials have proposed creating a bilateral roundtable to address the environmental impacts of ...

A record-breaking 37.5 million metric tons of seaweed was detected during May, with biologists warning that some Caribbean resorts may be blanketed by the naturally-occurring phenomenon during the ...

Quintana Roo officials report that the Mexican Caribbean has already collected over 76,000 tons of sargassum, a widely pervasive algae that grows in large masses on top of warm Caribbean waters and ...

A record amount of sargassum seaweed is lurking in the Atlantic Ocean, just east of Florida. Sargassum is a yellowish-brown floating macroalgae that crabs, sea turtles, shrimp and other marine life ...

Researchers at the University of South Florida discovered a steep decline in sargassum, a brown seaweed found in large floating masses, despite huge swaths of it inundating beaches in Florida and ...

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is an immense, recurring accumulation of brown macroalgae drifting across the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Composed of the floating seaweed Sargassum, this natural ...

Stinky, unsightly and potentially harmful – there are a litany of adjectives used to describe the naturally-occurring type of macroalgae called Sargassum, and none of them are positive. Sargassum has ...

If you’ve been on the coasts of Florida in the last couple of weeks, you’ve probably seen bunches of brown seaweed washing up on the shore. That’s called sargassum. It’s a macro algae that blows ...