Larger creatures such as fish and turtles find plenty to eat amid the sargassum, and they attract bigger predators—triggerfish, tripletails, filefish, mahi-mahis, and jacks, on up the chain of ...

Beach managers are constrained to what areas of the beach they can clean during turtle nesting season, which began March 1.

Researchers hope the study can eventually find a way to predict when blooms will occur, and how to reduce their effects on ...

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 ...

“The bacteria that manage to survive in sargassum patches not only affect corals, but also end up causing fish deaths.” García says that the most significant historical damage to corals still ...

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 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 ...

One of Henry’s undergraduates, Brittney McKenzie, commuted to the lab every day past resort beaches covered in brown mounds of invasive sargassum seaweed. “Why don’t we look at sargassum?” ...

Sargassum floats near the water’s surface, while kelp is anchored to rocks on the ocean floor. Both of these types of algae feed and give shelter to other marine life, including fish, turtles, ...

The government reports that sargassum typically washes ashore between ... that the buildup provides food and refuge for small fish, crabs, shrimp and other organisms. Marine experts at the ...