Sargassum

Beach bummer: Stinky sargassum comes to South Florida shores ― just in time for holiday weekend

There was plenty of twisted seaweed, known as sargassum, along the shores of Broward County beaches over the holiday weekend.

Researchers hope to make Caribbean sargassum useful, perhaps on ice cream

Imran Ahmad, a food scientist with Florida International University, has ideas for how the disgusting Caribbean sargassum could be turned into something delicious.

Flesh-eating bacteria on Florida beaches? Seaweed-plastic mix causes concern, study shows

Mounds of brown, tangled blobs of seaweed, also known as Sargassum, is mixing with plastic and creating a bacteria-laden concoction.