Tag: sargassum proliferation

The Florida Municipal Power Agency plans to add six solar farms that will supply power to 20 municipal utilities throughout ...

The funding, totaling about $377 million, included hundreds of millions of dollars for energy-efficiency rebates and electrification.

Scientist Maria Josefina Olascoaga and others hope to learn more about the oceanic conditions that transport the brown macroalgae.

The heat waves could linger through the end of the year.

University of Miami researchers are studying how aerosol emissions from sargassum seaweed affect the air we breathe.

Climate change will only put more stress on natural waterways and overmatched storm water systems.

The rise in both atmospheric and ocean temperatures is rapidly altering the stretches of coastline where land and water meet.

El Niño dramatically dampens hurricane activity, but at the same time record ocean heat is bubbling up in the Atlantic.

This year, scientists estimate there is more than 10 million metric tons of sargassum in the Atlantic belt. 

There is increasing commercial and research interest in developing ways to put sargassum to use.