The Riviera Maya on Mexico’s Caribbean coast is seeing an increase of up to 50% more sargassum seaweed on its beaches this ...

Researchers identified a strong negative North Atlantic Oscillation in 2009--2010 as the tipping point that pushed sargassum into the tropical Atlantic, confirming vertical mixing, not rivers ...

A time lapsed model depicting interannual Sargassum blooms in the North Atlantic. The alga was pushed southward and injected into the tropics, where it proliferates today, through a series of ...

A criminal drug ring in Mexico that frequently terrorized a resort near Cancún popular with American tourists was dismantled following an undercover sting operation by law enforcement. The state ...

Muller-Karger and a team of researchers analyzed currents, winds and nutrient levels to determine that vertical currents are behind the massive blooms creating the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.

TAMPA, Fla. (March 13, 2025) – The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has puzzled researchers since 2011. A recent study published in Nature Communications may have identified what drove a tipping ...

A sheriff in Virginia is pushing back against the narrative that a missing University of Pittsburgh student from his county drowned in the Dominican Republic, saying that it is "too early to rule ...