When beachgoers say there's a brown blob of seaweed floating in the ocean, they really mean it. At least that's what a recent aerial image taken by veteran Palm Beach Post photographer Greg Lovett ...

A record amount of sargassum seaweed is lurking in the Atlantic Ocean, just east of Florida. Sargassum is a yellowish-brown floating macroalgae that crabs, sea turtles, shrimp and other marine life ...

As Big Agriculture continues to dump fertilizer and other cattle ranch runoff into the Gulf of Mexico, our aquatic systems suffer. Algal blooms wind up flourishing, killing fish and shellfish alike ...

Smelly, brown seaweed washing up on Florida shores is snaring baby sea turtles on their way to the ocean, researchers warned this week, leaving them vulnerable to predators and putting them at risk of ...

A leatherback sea turtle hatchling climbs over sargassum on a beach. In a new study, researchers timed sea turtles to see how long it took them to reach the ocean when they had to traverse piles of ...

Researchers have discovered that what was previously thought to be a unique seaweed species of bladderwrack for the Baltic Sea is in fact a giant clone of common bladderwrack, perhaps the world's ...

Two very Brevard things to do, both momentarily tainted by sargassum seaweed. We're talking about a recent trip to a Space Coast beach to view the crewed Axiom-2 launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to ...

Seaweed, the colorful macroalgae that grows in the ocean, is a food source for marine life and humans. Each type of seaweed has a unique set of nutrients and can boost vitamin and mineral intake if ...

MBA student Eliza Harrison sees the potential of seaweed in supporting a wide range of climate mitigation strategies Growing up amid the rugged beauty of northern New Mexico – with boundless access to ...

On some beaches in Florida, the "blobs" of crunchy, dry, brown stinky seaweed range. Some are fairly large When is "seaweed season?" Sargassum usually appears in Florida beaches in the spring, with a ...