The stinky sargassum is currently traveling across the Atlantic and Caribbean. It’s the largest amount ever recorded.

Sargassum hurts ecosystems and economies wherever its overgrown arms reach. And the seaweed is reaching into Florida’s ...

Massive amounts of sargassum are “piling up in thick mats along the beach,” according to the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico ... other species thrive in the decaying seaweed ...

Tunnell said the latest seaweed is part of an annual cycle where sargassum comes into the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean in the loop current. When conditions are right with current ...

The area of the Atlantic covered by seaweed set a new all-time record ... sargassum was mainly found in the Sargasso Sea and the Gulf of Mexico (renamed by the U.S. government as Gulf of America ...

But here’s the good news: the Gulf of Mexico remains relatively clear, and most of the seaweed hanging off the East Coast isn’t on a collision course with Florida beaches. Total Sargassum in ...