Topic: sargassum seaweed
Doctors, residents raise concerns over sargassum health impacts
Extended exposure to large amounts of decaying sargassum can irritate the eyes, throat, and lungs, particularly for people with asthma.
South Florida company offers ‘aquatic tractor’ as sargassum solution
A South Florida-based company says it is seeing an uptick in orders of its sargassum-clearing machinery which it says can clear 500 pounds of the seaweed a minute on the near-shore of beaches.
Agencies working on national response to sargassum
Government agencies say they are continuing to work on a national response to this year's expected influx of sargassum.
Rotting seaweed ends sargassum-removal trial
Efforts to use pumps to remove a huge blanket of sargassum from the edge of the North Sound in West Bay have been abandoned after workers found it impractical to pump the rotting seaweed from the water.
Trial sargassum clean-up under way
A trial clean-up of the massive influx of sargassum in West Bay is set to begin today, using giant pumps to remove seaweed that has floated into the area.
Sea of sargassum: Invasion spreads in North Sound
Businesses and residents along Morgan's Harbour, West Bay were greeted with large mats of brown sargassum weed along the shoreline on Saturday which they say is the worst they have experienced in the area.
Expected increase in sargassum poses threat to nesting turtles
As the all too familiar sargassum blooms wreck havoc on local coastlines the Department of Environment is advising property owners to get permission before commencing any mechanical clearing work on the beach.
Researchers: April sargassum bloom largest ever recorded
Researchers at NASA and the University of South Florida continue to warn of a growing bloom of Sargassum seaweed, after satellite imagery captured the largest ever recorded April growth of the sea-surface algae.
Millions of tons of sargassum blossoming in Atlantic
Researchers at the University of South Florida are warning of a massive sargassum bloom this year after satellite imagery detected 4 million metric tons of the seaweed blossoming in the western Atlantic Ocean.
Sargassum smothers local shores
Cayman’s pristine shoreline is once again under attack from a familiar foe as mounds of sargassum have started washing up on local beaches.
NASA spots millions of tons of sargassum in Caribbean
Satellite images show the Eastern Caribbean is likely to be heavily impacted by influxes of sargassum this summer.
Year in Review: The summer of sargassum
An occasional menace in summers past, sargassum swamped Cayman’s beaches in such volumes this year, the problem became impossible to ignore.
Eat it to beat it: Sargassum seaweed, baked, boiled and fried
Mats of sargassum seaweed are a treasure trove of surprises. A natural habitat for small marine life, sargassum offers food and shelter to shrimp,...
Scientists slowly unravel sargassum mystery
As Caribbean economies reel from the impacts of multiple years of sargassum invasions, a new field of research has emerged to find out what is fueling the phenomenon. The Cayman Compass talked to scientists from Barbados to Florida as they track the sargassum back to the source.
Minister Joey Hew: “Next year, we will be ready”
Infrastructure Minister Joey Hew sat down with the Cayman Compass to talk about government’s plans to deal with the sargassum threat.
Sargassum solution
Today's editorial cartoon
Sargassum mapping empowers tourists
A less-than-postcard-perfect vacation to the Caribbean in 2013 resulted in one of the region’s most utilised tools for monitoring seaweed conditions on popular tourist beaches.
The Issue Explained: Sargassum in the Caribbean
Since 2011, periodic invasions of sargassum have been a feature of life in the Caribbean.
A deep dive into the seaweed
You smell it, before you see it. That pungent rotten-egg scent that carries on the sea breeze is the first warning sign of an unwelcome visitor to Cayman’s shores.
Businesses count the cost of an unwelcome visitor: sargassum
For large parts of the summer, sections of shoreline from South Sound to East End were smothered with a mass of sargassum. The only distinguishable scent was the potent sulphur-tinged odour of rotting seaweed.
Sargassum problem ‘here to stay’
Environment officials are investigating long-term solutions to the ongoing problem of regular invasions of foul smelling sargassum seaweed that have impacted Cayman’s beaches over the past few years.
Mail Call: Sargassum summer
Sargassum. It is quickly becoming a dirty word here in the Caribbean, as massive floating mats of the stuff inundate our shores.
