Levels of floating seaweed mats, known as sargassum, have skyrocketed in the Atlantic Ocean in the past month, with the total ...

The seaweed forms large forests from the surface down to a depth of 10 meters. Fish fry, snails and crustaceans thrive here, and the kelp forests also provide an important habitat for larger fish.

‘There’s nothing like it in any other ocean,’ says marine ... Lapointe is talking about a floating seaweed known as sargassum in a region of the Atlantic called the Sargasso Sea.

Sargassum seaweed is a problem throughout the Caribbean. But scientists have plans to transform it into a source of renewable ...

Researchers think the Gulf will start to see more seaweed, or sargassum, in the coming weeks. From there it can travel on the ...

A recent study published in Nature Communications may have identified what drove a tipping point that established the phenomenon in the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Using computer modeling ...

With summer just around the corner, it’s only a matter of time before seaweed washes up on shore and researchers are now developing<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Levels of floating seaweed mats have skyrocketed in the Atlantic Ocean in the past month, with the total amount breaking the record for March. The seaweed travels on ocean currents across the ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have discovered that what was previously thought to be a unique seaweed species of bladderwrack for the Baltic Sea is in fact a giant clone of common ...