Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stinky, unsightly and potentially harmful – there are a litany of adjectives used to describe the naturally-occurring type of ...

Many in South Florida are probably already looking ahead to spring break and thinking about making more frequent trips to the beach. But like clockwork during the warmer months, many beachgoers ...

A giant blob of seaweed twice the width of the continental United States is headed for the shores of Florida and other coastlines throughout the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump smelly and possibly ...

Great news for fans of seaweed that collects on beaches in colossal heaps, and stings people's eyes, nostrils, and throats with a stench like rotten eggs: mass quantities of the algae known as ...

While it's finally the time of year of spontaneous and relaxing beach trips for Floridians, it's also the time of year when heavy blankets of smelly seaweed coats our coasts. Sargassum, a naturally ...

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Researchers at Florida Atlantic University’s Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute have released a landmark review tracing four decades of changes in pelagic sargassum – free-floating brown seaweed ...

It all started with the idea of using natural ocean resources to develop new climate-friendly raw materials for industry. To this end, committed researchers from AWI, Carbonwave, GEOMAR, Helmholtz ...

Stinky, unsightly and potentially harmful – there are a litany of adjectives used to describe the naturally-occurring type of macroalgae called Sargassum, and none of them are positive. Sargassum has ...