Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: In the labs of the University of Santiago, scientists are exploring an unexpected source of energy: slimy, green seaweed.

Although Quintana Roo’s tourism sector has boomed over the past decade, Cancún airport, the gateway to many Mexican beach ...

How could tiny antennae attached to tiny algae speed up the transition away from fossil fuels? This is one of the questions being studied by Cambridge researchers as they search for new ways to ...

As millions of spring breakers flock to Florida in search of scenic beaches, warm weather and the trademark blue ocean waters – they are being met with an unpleasant surprise. An estimated 9.5 million ...

A 5,000-mile-wide swarm of seaweed may be slowly creeping across the ocean toward Florida. The enormous mat of seaweed, measuring twice the size of the contiguous United States (New York City to Los ...

A giant "blob" of sargassum seaweed measuring 5,000 miles wide — twice the width of the continental United States — is headed for the Florida coast and already covering beaches with algae that will ...

Seaweed has been part of the human diet for a long time. In Asia, its consumption is well established in culinary traditions. Think of the famous dashi, the flavourful Japanese broth. About fifty ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A record amount of seaweed is smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados as tons of brown algae kill wildlife, choke the tourism industry and release toxic gases.

People may find the massive amounts of seaweed washing up on Florida beaches to be smelly, annoying and even unhealthy, but not much can be done about it right now. Mechanical removal of the algae ...

This summer, some say things look a bit — and smell a bit — worse than usual. That's because the shoreline seems mostly awash in weeds, from Cocoa Beach to Sebastian Inlet and beyond. There's the ...