(NEXSTAR) – Blobs of seaweed amassing in the Atlantic Ocean grew to a collective 5.5 million tons last month, an increase over the record-breaking quantity reached in December. The vast majority of ...

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A giant blob of seaweed twice the width of the continental United States is headed for the shores of Florida and other coastlines throughout the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump smelly and possibly ...

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, a thick mass of leafy, floating seaweed stretching across 5,000 miles of ocean, is forecast to be a nuisance of record-breaking proportions this year. In May, ...

A gargantuan mass of seaweed that formed in the Atlantic Ocean is headed for the shores of Florida and other coastlines throughout the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump smelly and potentially ...

It’s hard for beachgoers to ignore the foul-smelling, seaweed-like algae washing ashore in Florida. But what exactly is it, and what’s its purpose? 2. Researchers said 2023 could have the largest ...

The seaweed, which smells like rotten eggs and emits toxic gases when it comes ashore, proved a nuisance for Florida beachgoers in the spring – which is also the start of the Sunshine State’s tourist ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — By now you’ve probably seen the countless headlines about the giant Sargassum seaweed invasion headed for Florida. These Sargassum blooms have been booming over the last several ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say the problem of foul-smelling seaweed-like algae on the country’s Caribbean coast beaches is “alarming.” The arrival of heaps of brown sargassum on the coast’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TULUM, Mexico (AP) — Scraping the smelly ...

Ginny Matts and her boyfriend were excited to celebrate her 60th birthday in Key West. But their vacation was spoiled by an unexpected guest: a record-breaking amount of smelly seaweed known as ...