The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has puzzled researchers since 2011. A new model demonstrates that the alga was brought to the tropics by strong currents, and thrived in ideal growing conditions.

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, as the ...

Sargassum patches cover up sea turtle nesting sites and overwhelm mangroves, important nurseries for aquatic species. In some areas, beaches have eroded due to algae removal using heavy machinery ...

Photograph by David Doubilet The two predominant species of sargassum in the Sargasso Sea are the only seaweeds in the world that don’t begin life attached to the seafloor. As a consequence of ...

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 ...

Now, one Mexican entrepreneur is building houses out of bricks made from the invasive species. More from World Wide Waste Millions of tons of sargassum wash up on beaches across North America ...

For some species of marine life ... "As in most previous years, February is expected to see increased Sargassum from January. More Sargassum is expected to enter the Caribbean Sea through the ...