This country is on a path to being fossil fuel free by 2030 so we’re in an environment where there’s a welcoming open arms ...

Professor Lagena Henry, who teaches renewable energy, at the University of the West Indies in Barbados has come up with a ...

Rum and Sargassum, a startup in Barbados in the Caribbean islands, is turning rum waste from distilleries and seaweed washed off onto the shores to produce bio-compressed natural gas to fuel cars. The ...

In 2019, Legena Henry, SM ’10, and the students in her renewable energy course at the University of the West Indies in Barbados wondered how to help their island stop using fossil fuel by 2030. Their ...

(NEXSTAR) – Blobs of seaweed amassing in the Atlantic Ocean grew to a collective 5.5 million tons last month, an increase over the record-breaking quantity reached in December. The vast majority of ...

Mountains of brown, sludgy sargassum, an invasive species of seaweed, have rendered popular beaches in the Caribbean into an unsightly mess. The situation has become so dire that Barbados’ prime ...

Last year’s 5,500-mile-long swath of yellow-brown seaweed stretching over the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico was called the Great Sargassum Belt. Perhaps what’s growing out ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Near-record ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Near-record amounts of seaweed are smothering Caribbean coasts from Puerto Rico to Barbados, killing fish and other wildlife, choking tourism and releasing stinky, noxious ...

What has been an occasional problem in Florida has turned into an annual scourge as heaps of rotting, stinky brown seaweed pile up every year along the coast during the prime beach months. Sargassum, ...