Sargassum plants are a nuisance on some beaches, but they are a shelter and a feast for a complex and amazing variety of marine life. A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts ...

Research was a challenge, too—the lab’s air conditioning didn’t work and the microscopes would become full of mold. With no internet or phones onsite, “the only connection for us to the outer world ...

Researchers identified a strong negative North Atlantic Oscillation in 2009--2010 as the tipping point that pushed sargassum into the tropical Atlantic, confirming vertical mixing, not rivers ...

One type is microalgae, which can only be seen with a microscope. Macroalgae, on the other hand, is big enough to see with your eyes, and examples include the brown seaweeds called sargassum and kelp.

The Department of Environment has started preparing early measures to tackle the massive arrival of sargassum expected in Playa del Carmen in 2025, according to reports from the Oceanographic ...

TAMPA, Fla. (March 13, 2025) – The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has puzzled researchers since 2011. A recent study published in Nature Communications may have identified what drove a tipping ...

A time lapsed model depicting interannual Sargassum blooms in the North Atlantic. The alga was pushed southward and injected into the tropics, where it proliferates today, through a series of ...