The Hill

Giant seaweed bloom’s beaching begins, expected to worsen

(NEXSTAR) – Bits of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt – a 5,000-mile-wide seaweed bloom – have started to wash up in Florida, but we’re likely months away from peak activity, researchers said Sunday.
People

120 Beached Whales Saved in Sri Lanka After Crews Brought Animals 'One By One Back Into Deeper Waters'

"The people around here got together and saved most of them," a local marine biologist said of the rescue efforts Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV team at PEOPLE. He has written ...
CBS News

Giant floating bloom of Sargassum seaweed will likely be largest ever recorded

Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza ...
The Hill

Seaweed bloom reaches record size: ‘Major beaching events are inevitable’

(NEXSTAR) – The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is thriving, “setting a record abundance” for this time of year, according to a new report released Friday. All that abundance – an estimated 13 million ...