The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum bloom has already ...

The "Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt" is a massive bloom of brown algae that stretches from the coast of West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico. It is the largest seaweed bloom in the world — weighing ...

Beachgoers beware! A record algae bloom is headed for South Florida - What’s that smell? Gross, brown seaweed blobs are aimed ...

An algae bloom also has been reported in the Indian River Lagoon, Basino said. The bloom in the Gulf of Mexico is about twice the size of Delaware. “It’s quite sizable,” Basino said.

In each of these locales, a different microorganism—present at low levels normally—generates the algal bloom when conditions align. (Read more about red tides in Australia.) Gulf of Mexico A ...

He said the bloom wasn’t isn’t a cause ... also ended up boosting the population of floating algae in the mid-Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. Other factors likely contributed, Lumpkin said.

A massive seaweed bloom may be heading toward Florida's ... seaweed in a belt from West Africa to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico in 2011, according to NASA. "This is all ultimately related ...

Spanning roughly 5,000 miles — about twice the width of the United States — the thick blanket of sargassum floats between the Gulf of ... inundated with algae. Parts of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

"The Mississippi River outflow is high in these nutrients due to fertilizer and cattle ranch runoff, which cause algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent hypoxic conditions or 'dead zones ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Scientists are researching a large “dead zone” in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and a ...

The “dead zone” forms in the Gulf of Mexico every summer ... is proposing cuts in funding to NOAA for harmful algal bloom and hypoxia research in fiscal year 2025. She said that’s concerning ...