July 23 (UPI) --At the United Nations Ocean Conference in June, Dominican President Luis Abinader issued an urgent call to recognize the scale of the environmental crisis posed by sargassum in the ...

Stinking mats of rotting seaweed are already starting to pile up on beaches across the Caribbean. These mega-blooms of slimy brown algae called sargassum were once seldom seen — but climate change and ...

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, a thick mass of leafy, floating seaweed stretching across 5,000 miles of ocean, is forecast to be a nuisance of record-breaking proportions this year. Sargassum is ...

Using algae to produce lightweight ceramic aggregates helps reduce the use of natural resources and enhances energy efficiency. But the innovation didn’t stop there. The team also explored using ...

The last time Toronto resident Victoria Brosman vacationed in South Florida she swore she’d never return. The sand by her beachfront hotel in Bal Harbour was piled high with sargassum, a scratchy ...

Finnish diver and organic chemist Mari Granström has spent decades exploring the oceans. More than 20 years ago, while mapping marine biodiversity, she began to notice a worrying pattern: certain ...

Florida is bracing for a record 'sargassum summer' with seaweed impacting tourism, health, and the economy, costing billions.