But a 2020 analysis found that 1 in 10 tourists say they'd either cancel or reschedule their trip to Key West if they knew sargassum was present. A bad sargassum year could leave a $20 million ...

Ginny Matts and her boyfriend were excited to celebrate her 60th birthday in Key West. But their vacation ... amount of smelly seaweed known as sargassum that is coating the iconic Florida island ...

Nothing like watching the ginormous blob of sargassum floating not too far southwest of the island to get me scurrying for a leftover COVID mask. Because, my beach-loving friends, we’re ...

Marshall Washington runs the Ron Jon Surf shop in Key West, just blocks from a beach where the stinky seaweed beached itself last year. READ MORE: Atlantic sargassum mass growing early ...

Stinky, unsightly and potentially harmful – there are a litany of adjectives used to describe the naturally-occurring type of macroalgae called Sargassum, and none of them are positive.

A pile of sargassum, or seaweed, on Key Biscayne’s coastline on Thursday, April 24. Ashley Miznazi [email protected] Piles of smelly seaweed have washed ashore on Miami Beach and Key ...

There was an estimated 31 million tons of sargassum across the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf last month — 40% more than the previous high in June 2022, per USF research assistant ...

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 ...

The collaboration with the Navy and the potential use of sargassum as a raw material represent key advances towards more efficient management of the phenomenon. With a preventive and sustainable ...