Satellite images reveal a massive 5,000-mile seaweed belt stretching thousands of miles across the Atlantic

For centuries, sailors crossing the Atlantic occasionally encountered floating mats of brown seaweed drifting far from land.

Sargassum tracker, patterns and impacts in Northeast Florida beaches

Predicting sargassum on Northeast Florida beaches is difficult due to complex weather and ocean current variables. Here's what NOAA experts say.
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Shifting climate alters pattern of Atlantic’s giant seaweed blobs

In an image he provided, Sully Sullivan, a graduate student at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science, collected sea samples in the Atlantic in July 2024. A 5,500-mile blob of ...
The Conversation

Seaweed is taking over coral reefs. But there’s a gardening solution – sea‑weeding

In the early 1990s, marine researchers in the Caribbean found something alarming. On reef after reef, corals were dying off – and seaweed was growing in their place. Since then, this pattern has been ...
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Seaweed blankets Thoothukudi shores; fishermen say it's a seasonal event

Vast quantities of seaweed have accumulated along the Thoothukudi coastline. Local fishermen have clarified that this is a ...