The Dominican Republic and Mexico propose a bilateral roundtable to tackle the environmental impact of sargassum seaweed on ...

The Dominican Republic's Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez and top Mexican officials have proposed creating a bilateral ...

Sargassum levels were already high around many eastern Caribbean islands in late May 2024. Forecasters expect increasing sargassum washing up in June on many of the islands and in the Gulf of ...

Midsummer is usually when sargassum, the floating seaweed that often washes up in malodorous piles on Florida beaches, starts ...

Sargassum, the stinky brown-and-green seaweed piling up along Florida beaches, is getting worse thanks to warmer seas, ...

Sargassum showed up briefly in the Caribbean in 2011 and had a massive comeback in 2015, which continued each summer through 2021. Now it's back.

Samples taken from sargassum on some of Mexico's Caribbean beaches had arsenic levels 60% higher than those permitted in food for humans and animals as well as heavy metal levels as high as 120 ...

April 10 (UPI) -- An unwelcome visitor is headed for Florida and the Caribbean: huge floating mats of sargassum, or free-floating brown seaweed. Nearly every year since 2011, sargassum has ...

On Mexico’s Caribbean coast, mountains of sargassum seaweed raise a growing stink In once-paradisical beach towns like Playa del Carmen, Tulum and Xcalak, this year appears on track to be worse ...

NOAA satellites generate a weekly risk map that shows where sargassum is likely to wash ashore in coastal areas of the U.S., Caribbean, and Central America.

Sargassum levels were already high around many eastern Caribbean islands in late May 2024. Forecasters expect increasing sargassum washing up in June on many of the islands and in the Gulf of Mexico.