(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.

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

(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 ...

VENICE, Fla. (AP) — In a rare occurrence along Florida's Gulf Coast, a large sperm whale that drew national attention after beaching itself on a sandbar died Monday, state wildlife officials said. The ...

More than half of the pod of whales stranded on an Australian beach had already died before the rest had to be euthanized. The last of nearly 100 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in ...