AUSTIN (KXAN) – A giant floating blob of Sargassum seaweed, floating in the Atlantic Ocean, can be detected and tracked all the way from space. It is already 5,000 miles long and an estimated 13 ...

Ocean currents push the ... Frightening media reports refer to a “giant blob” of seaweed barreling toward Florida. That’s not quite right. The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is not one ...

A raft of brown-colored seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean is so vast it can be seen from ... In open water, these giant mats of algae are mostly harmless and even have some benefits, including serving ...

During typical years, the Florida Keys may see widespread reports during the late spring, with more significant impacts ...

The mass, known as the great Atlantic Sargassum belt ... caption with this article misidentified the location of a giant blob of seaweed. The satellite image showed the blob off the coast of ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — We've been talking about it for about a month — a giant "blob" or bloom of seaweed is hanging out in the Atlantic Ocean. Called Sargassum, it's naturally occurring and ...

Millions of tons of seaweed currently floating in the tropical Atlantic Ocean could soon make its way toward the U.S., ...

Patches of sargassum have been spotted in the Atlantic Ocean for centuries, but since 2011, a 5,000-mile-long belt of the seaweed has circulated annually between the Gulf of Mexico and the mid ...

Reports indicate that this summer, a huge mass of sargassum seaweed that has formed in the Atlantic Ocean is possibly headed for the Florida coastlines and shores throughout the Gulf of Mexico.

One concept from Seafields Solutions looks to utilize some unlikely real estate by developing a giant seaweed farm in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean capable of capturing a gigatonne of carbon ...