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. In May, ...

Jamaican fisherman Romain Betty, who lives in the coastal town of Manchioneal, says the sargassum seaweed matts in local waters are sometimes so thick it can be difficult to run outboard motors. Most ...

Summer is the peak tourist season for Galveston Island. Summer also marks the peak of the sargassum season. Sargassum is the genus name for several species of brown algae, two of which invade ...

If you've never heard of sargassum, you may live too far inland to be aware of the invasive plant. That's because this seaweed has become the bane of existence for many along Florida's southern ...