Piles of smelly seaweed have washed ashore on Miami Beach and Key Biscayne, a stinky reminder that this is sargassum season. The brown seaweed is a common sight across the Caribbean and on South ...

Sargassum seaweed spotted in Florida. Here's where it's going and when it will be worst. That's what it's been like lately to deal with sargassum seaweed if you go to a Florida beach.

Sargassum seaweed is nothing to sneeze at, and judging by interest in people googling the topic, it's a topic people around the world are taking seriously — at least when it comes to finding out ...

Bad news, beachgoers: The seaweed monster is back and it’s expected to be bigger than ever. Scientists at the University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Lab, the point people for tracking ...

USF scientists project 40% more seaweed than the previous record mess of 2022, when stinky, scratchy piles sent many tourists packing and cost cities millions to clean up.

Rotten-egg-smelling seaweed is back on Florida beaches. Here are Miami areas most frequently impacted during sargassum season and its health impacts.

"We noticed the seaweed looked different from the Sargassum fluitans or S. natans with which we were familiar from 20 years of sailing in the Sargasso Sea, the Caribbean, and Florida Straits," the ...

It’s that time of year again, as a huge mass of sargassum seaweed may be Florida-bound. In last month’s outlook of 2025 sargassum blooms, ...

The Surfing Santas event made a splashy return to Cocoa Beach for its 16th year, drawing over 12,000 spectators to the sandy shores of Florida's Space Coast. More than 400 surfers donned their ...

Florida uses a universal flag system to let beachgoers know about tide and surf conditions. Here's what each flag means: ...

What do Florida’s beach flags mean? Florida’s Beach Warning Flag Program uses four colors to indicate current tide and surf conditions: Red, yellow, green and purple.