“We also have a project ongoing specifically caring for the organoleptics of the product, ensuring it won’t have any ‘spoiled seaweed’ flavor and it will have a good color,” she told ...

A seaweed belt surrounds boats moored along Dinner Key Marina outside of Monty’s Coconut Grove restaurant in Miami, Florida on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Scientists predict 2025 to be a record seaweed ...

(NEXSTAR) – Blooms of smelly, toxic seaweed shattered records in May, growing to over 37 million tons and inundating beaches around the Caribbean. If it’s not bad enough already, the amount of ...

Bad news, beachgoers: The seaweed monster is back and it’s expected to be bigger than ever. Scientists at the University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Lab, the point people for tracking ...

But Friday, as 7Skyforce hovered over several beaches in South Florida, the smelly seaweed situation did not look as bad yet. “A heavy odor. It’s a smell that you can feel it,” said ...

But this week, the mounting piles of seaweed along Key Biscayne have kept them away. Sandra Artiles, who lives in Brickell, said the problem is just as bad inland. "We have all this seaweed every day.

Ultimately, though, the amount of seaweed that reaches Florida beaches ... it has a reputation for being slimy and smelling bad as it rots. Some local Florida governments spend millions of dollars ...