Most of the troubles plaguing the subtropical waters of Florida and the Caribbean revolve around disappearing marine life: coral reefs, fish populations, sea grass beds. It's decidedly the opposite case with sargassum, the ...
Plants & Animals
May 1, 2023
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Sargassum is a genus of brown seaweed. Over 300 species are distributed across the world in both temperate and tropical climates. The species fluitans and natans are unique because they spend their life cycle floating on ...
Ecology
Apr 17, 2023
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A large mass of Sargassum "seaweed" circling around the Gulf of Mexico may soon wash up along the U.S. coast near Florida—depending on the right combination of currents and wind. The bloom, which may likely be the largest ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 10, 2023
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Scientists aboard a U.S. research vessel in the tropical Atlantic are taking advantage of the ship's long-planned path through the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt to take some of the first samples from a massive, ongoing bloom. ...
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Mar 30, 2023
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As Atlantic beaches brace for their annual onslaught of a potent-smelling seaweed, scientists on a project led by the University of Southampton are sharing their research into how communities affected can make use of this ...
Ecology
Mar 29, 2023
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A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean is expected in the next few months to wash onto beaches in the Caribbean Sea, South Florida, and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
Ecology
Mar 22, 2023
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A giant blob of seaweed, spanning 5,000 miles and weighing an estimated 6.1 million tons, threatens to blanket Florida beaches and Caribbean islands with smelly piles of decaying brown goop.
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2023
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Scraping the smelly sargassum seaweed off some beaches on Mexico's resort-studded Caribbean coast has become not only a nightmare, but possibly a health threat, for the workers doing it—with the quantities washing ashore ...
Ecology
Aug 30, 2022
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Toufiq Reza, biomedical and chemical engineering and sciences assistant professor, and Spencer Fire, ocean engineering and marine sciences assistant professor, have collaborated in researching mitigation and control of harmful ...
Ecology
Aug 18, 2022
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Rotting seaweed has plagued the Caribbean for more than 10 years—but our research shows how we could clean up beaches and emissions at the same time, by turning what's now rubbish into renewable electricity and fertilizer.
Biotechnology
May 31, 2022
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