At the United Nations Ocean Conference in June, Dominican President Luis Abinader issued an urgent call to recognize the ...

The Dominican Republic is waging an ongoing battle to clear its world-famous beaches of sargassum seaweed, as massive ...

NOAA is monitoring and tracking sargassum. They provide online forecasts and near-real-time conditions. NOAA satellites ...

The Ministry of the Environment issued an emergency plan that includes guidelines for collecting sargassum from Dominican ...

The Dominican Republic is intensifying efforts to combat the growing invasion of sargassum seaweed along its most popular ...

Bayahibe Dominicus in the Dominican Republic is transforming from a fishing community into a rising tourism hotspot, driven ...

“We discovered that the Dominican Republic lent itself to be the place to start the first phase, with the company transferring raw sargassum to its plant in Finland,” he said.

WHY IT RATES: The Minister of Tourism of the Dominican Republic called for the group to unite on a solution to the sargassum problem plaguing the region. —Janeen Christoff, TravelPulse Managing Editor ...

Rescuers found a seventh body on Sunday in the search for survivors and victims, after a boat carrying migrants capsized days ...

The Dominican Republic has become the latest country to sign up the Hamilton Declaration on Collaboration for the Conservation of the Sargasso Sea. ... is an ecosystem based on sargassum seaweed.

A record amount of sargassum seaweed amassed across the Caribbean and surrounding areas in May, with more expected this month, according to a recent report.. The brown algae is blanketing ...

In April, Mexico’s Secretary of the Navy, Jose Rafael Ojeda Duran, announced that the country successfully installed over 9,000 meters of anti-sargassum barriers along the coast of Quintana Roo. To ...