Riviera Maya officials have begun preparing for the annual arrival of sargassum, a species of seaweed that grows in the Caribbean and, in spring through autumn, washes up in great numbers along the ...

Officials in Riviera Maya, Mexico, have been forced to get an early start on efforts to remove annoying and costly sargassum seaweed from popular beaches. According to Riviera Maya News, several ...

Tracking the whereabouts of the prickly mats of seaweed is an online militia of grassroots Facebook pages, word-of-mouth ...

A worker collecting sargassum seaweed on beaches of the Riviera Maya, Mexico. Riviera May and Cancun are experiencing one of their most intrusive sargassum seaweed seasons to date. daniromphoto ...

This seaweed exhibits erratic behavior depending on climatological changes, ocean currents, and even tropical storm and hurricane seasons. Tourists do not want piles of decaying seaweed and brown ...

Quintana Roo officials report that the Mexican Caribbean has already collected over 76,000 tons of sargassum, a widely pervasive algae that grows in large masses on top of warm Caribbean waters and ...

A 5,000-mile-wide swarm of seaweed may be slowly creeping across the ocean toward Florida. The enormous mat of seaweed, measuring twice the size of the contiguous United States (New York City to Los ...