Cancún and Playa del Carmen are preparing for a massive influx of sargassum seaweed during Semana Santa, leading up to Easter.

Will your next trip to Florida's beaches be filled with stinky seaweed? Here's what to know about sargassum and where it ...

THE seaweed industry has become a significant economic engine for Central Visayas, generating an estimated P350 to P400 ...

According to Nature Communications (2019), seaweed absorbs carbon dioxide, helping mitigate climate change by storing carbon in deep-sea sediments. Studies in Frontiers in Marine Science (2020) reveal ...

from Sargassum. Seaweed is known to absorb metal ions from seawater, with some species accumulating up to 40% of their dry weight as minerals. That’s not where the seaweed story ends.

This study investigated the biodiversity of macroalgae along the southern Atlantic coast of Morocco and explored the relationship between their distribution and the physicochemical properties of ...

Conservation efforts are bringing species back from the brink, even as overall biodiversity falls Date: March 18, 2025 Source: University of Cambridge Summary: A major review of over 67,000 animal ...

Involving more than 800 scientists from more than 400 institutions worldwide, Ocean Census has embarked on ten expeditions and numerous workshops—so far—with a sole aim: discovering new species in the ...

Muller-Karger and a team of researchers analyzed currents, winds and nutrient levels to determine that vertical currents are behind the massive blooms creating the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.

Massive sargassum seaweed blooms in the past few years, which were among the largest ever recorded, have fouled beaches in the tropical Atlantic with their huge, stinky clumps. Now, scientists have ...