It was not until decades later, when I read Rachel Carson’s The Sea All Around Us, that I learned about the Sargasso Sea. It ...

There is a two million square mile sea with no land borders that is surrounded by just one ocean. The Sargasso Sea is a ...

Sargassum plants are a nuisance on some beaches, but they are a shelter and a feast for a complex and amazing variety of marine life. A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts ...

The region, located in the North Atlantic Ocean is called the Sargasso Sea and it’s characterised by its unique boundaries. Rather than land, it’s defined by ocean currents, so there’s no ...

A floating mass of seaweed stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico is now the biggest seaweed bloom in the world, according to satellite observations. The algal explosion in the Atlantic ...

When waves of sargassum - a type of seaweed - washed up on Eastern Caribbean shores seven years ago, people hoped it was a one-off. Matted piles swamped coastlines from Tobago to Anguilla.

Every year, eels leave European rivers to travel in an epic migration to the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic to breed for a single time, then die. Although this final destination has long been ...

Sargassum seaweed is native to the historical "Sargasso Sea" that gives rise annually to the largest macroalgal bloom in the world. At its peak, this biomass, referred to as "The Great Atlantic ...

An international environmental group will put forward a plan to British lawmakers today to protect the high seas around ...

The Sargasso Sea It is commonly supposed that this area of the Atlantic is so thick with seaweed that ships cannot penetrate it. Although it is indeed strewn with floating Sargassum, it is ...