Predicting sargassum on Northeast Florida beaches is difficult due to complex weather and ocean current variables. Here's what NOAA experts say.

Record amounts of sargassum seaweed are slowly moving west and north across the Atlantic Ocean, piling up on the shores of ...

In an image he provided, Sully Sullivan, a graduate student at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science, collected sea samples in the Atlantic in July 2024. A 5,500-mile blob of ...

The annual seaweed landings have returned to the Gulf Coast.

Seaweed is the name given to the many species of marine algae and plants that grow in water bodies such as rivers, seas and oceans. They range in colours from red, green, brown and black and also vary ...

Seaweed is a general term that describes algae and marine plants that grow along rocky shorelines around the world. There are many types, including red (Rhodophyta), green (Chlorophyta), blue-green, ...

A 5,500-mile blob of seaweed in the Atlantic Ocean that has menaced beaches across the Caribbean and Florida in recent years is exploding in size, while a second patch farther north is declining ...