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A research team tracked and studied floating sargassum in order to unlock its potential to be used to produce sustainable products.

Scientists say seaweed threatens tourism and disrupts turtle nesting sites, reefs and mangroves.

Researchers have been working to track and study floating sargassum, a prolific seaweed swamping Caribbean and West African shorelines, and causing environmental and economic harm. The study, "Changes in holopelagic Sargassum spp. biomass composition across an unusual year," is published in PNAS.

Many Caribbean entrepreneurs see an unprecedented economic opportunity in the sargassum that has regularly swamped the region since 2011.

Many Caribbean entrepreneurs see an unprecedented economic opportunity in the sargassum that has regularly swamped the region since 2011.

Entrepreneurs and researchers have big ideas about how to use sargassum, but they are often stymied by a lack of funding and other support.

IT MAY be a new year but the call to engage in best efforts to halt climate change and nature loss prevails. The call has got a little bit louder as the reality of the impacts of last year’s coral bleaching event – which reportedly devastated...

KINGSTON — “All of this was mangroves,” says marine scientist Mona Webber, pointing toward a line of ghostly gray boulders separating the road from the sea. We’re standing on the side of Norman Manley Highway, a raised road that squiggles along a spit of sand known as the Palisadoes and connects Jamaica’s Norman Manley International […]

Chief Executive Officer of the GraceKennedy Foundation, Mrs. Caroline Mahfood will be a featured speaker at this year’s Island Innovation Virtual Island Summit.

The GraceKennedy Foundation (GKF) has announced that it is collaborating with The Ocean Cleanup, and Clean Harbours Jamaica (CHJ) Limited to implement a pilot project to prevent waste from entering the Kingston Harbour. The pilot project between