Sargassum

The weed, a floating species of algae known as Sargassum that inhabits the Sargasso Sea, had completely filled the bay on which the hotel sits and created piles as high as five feet tall on the usually pristine shore.

NYT > Home Page By MICHELLE HIGGINS 2011

This includes fully protecting the drifting forests of Sargassum seaweed that provide safe havens for sea turtles and young fish, as well as seagrass meadows, deep water coral reefs and shallow oyster beds, and the range of mini-mountains crowned with coral that stretch along the northern Gulf 75 to 100 miles offshore.

Oil Spill Cleanup 'Succeeded In Magnifying, Not Diminishing The Impacts' The Huffington Post 2011

This includes fully protecting the drifting forests of Sargassum seaweed that provide safe havens for sea turtles and young fish, as well as seagrass meadows, deep water coral reefs and shallow oyster beds, and the range of mini-mountains crowned with coral that stretch along the northern Gulf 75 to 100 miles offshore.

Oil Spill Cleanup 'Succeeded In Magnifying, Not Diminishing The Impacts' The Huffington Post 2011

They had about 20 seconds, not much time to talk about the complexity of ecosystems or draw attention, say, to the plight of the Gulf of Mexico's Sargassum algae.

Robert Koehler: Beyond Petroleum 2010

They had about 20 seconds, not much time to talk about the complexity of ecosystems or draw attention, say, to the plight of the Gulf of Mexico's Sargassum algae.

Robert Koehler: Beyond Petroleum 2010

The Caribbean has the bearded fireworm and nocturnal brittle stars, while off South Korea lives the Sargassum fish.

Census Of Marine Life: Gulf Of Mexico Is 5th Most Diverse Area 2010

Sargassum species and red algae of the genus Laurencia are also common.

Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, Belize 2009

There are qualitative measures of the goodness of proxies, based on a combination of logic, tectonic configuration, ocean current patterns, atmosphering current patterns and naturally, the biological tell tale of all that Sargassum.

Wilson on Yamal Substitution « Climate Audit 2006

This sea-weed, which belongs to the order of Fucacae, of the genus Sargassum, produces, when dry, a gelatinous matter, rich and nutritious.

The Mysterious Island 2005

This sea-weed, which belongs to the order of Fucacae, of the genus Sargassum, produces, when dry, a gelatinous matter, rich and nutritious.

The Mysterious Island 2005