Along coastlines in the Caribbean, the United States, and northern Brazil, massive amounts of brown seaweed called sargassum have become a growing...

Large amounts of brown algae, commonly referred to as sargassum, have been increasingly appearing on beaches far from their usual central Atlantic...

Brazilian researchers have developed a ceramic clay that is lighter than that normally used in civil construction by adding algae from the Sargassum...

Brazilian researchers have developed a ceramic clay that is lighter than that normally used in civil construction by adding algae from the Sargassum...

The dream of building homes, labs, and entire settlements on Mars is no longer just the stuff of science fiction. Billionaires, space agencies, and...

The dream of building homes, labs, and entire settlements on Mars is no longer just the stuff of science fiction. Billionaires, space agencies, and...

The smelly, gigantic blobs of brown seaweed that drift across the Atlantic Ocean every summer may not seem like a major threat at first glance. Yet,...

Seaweed washing onto sandy shores does more than rot. A new study found that it fuels oxygen-tolerant microorganisms that pump methane into the air,...

Seaweed washing onto sandy shores does more than rot. A new study found that it fuels oxygen-tolerant microorganisms that pump methane into the air,...

Every year, mountains of plastic pile up in landfills and drift into the world’s oceans, while greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide continue to...