A strange brown ribbon stretching from the coast of Africa to North America has scientists and other experts worried about ...

It's heating up, Memorial Day weekend is coming, and everyone's heading to the beach. Unfortunately, so are tons of toxic seaweed. Sargassum is a beneficial resource in the Atlantic. But on Florida's ...

Large and often smelly brownish-colored algae blobs are headed for South Florida shores once again. But this time, they’re even bigger. In fact, the amount of sargassum seaweed aimed at Floridians ...

Sargassum, that stinky brown seaweed that washes up on Mexican Caribbean shores, made an early appearance this year.

What has been an occasional problem in Florida has turned into an annual scourge as heaps of rotting, stinky brown seaweed pile up every year along the coast during the prime beach months. Sargassum, ...

Tons of slimy, brownish, smelly bands of algae float along the southern Atlantic Ocean, where it has washed ashore in Florida, Texas and the Caribbean. But year after year, that algae — better known ...

In a world where Parkinson’s disease affects millions of people and has no cure, scientists might have just stumbled upon something remarkable in an unexpected place – seaweed. But not just any ...

Florida's beaches are hit by smelly sargassum blooms. A new study estimates costs at $3.63 billion annually. Here's why it ...

Kombu (Saccharina japonica) is a brown seaweed extensively cultivated and consumed in Japan, Korea and China. Despite its nutritional value, its strong fishy and grassy odor can deter some consumers.