Sargassum spp. blooms exacerbated by climate change and agricultural runoff are inundating Caribbean beaches, emitting toxic fumes greenhouse gases through decomposition. This hurts tourism, artisanal fishing, shore-based industry, human health, standards-of-living, coastal ecology, the global climate. Barriers, collection machinery, valorization have been unable to provide sufficient, sustaina...

Over the past decade unprecedented blooming of pelagic Sargassum has occurred across Equatorial Atlantic from West Africa to Caribbean. Although mats are considered beneficial in open ocean, providing valuable habitat for a diverse array endemic and associated species, they also inundate coastal areas cause plethora management challenges fisheries, tourism, nearshore ecosystems, public health s...

A novel fucan sulfate (Hor-1) was isolated from the hot water extract of an edible brown alga, Sargassum horneri (Turner) C. Agardh. The fucan sulfate was revealed to have sugar linkage types, sulfate content and uronic acid content different from those of sodium hornan (Na-HOR), another fucan sulfate isolated from this alga. However, it exhibited inhibitory activity against replication of herp...

in this research, the batch removal of toxic hexavalent chromium ions from wastewater and aqueous solution using dried (bd) sargassum sp. (brown marine algae) and activated carbon (ac) prepared from it was examined. biomass, ph and the initial concentration of cr(vi), adsorption models and kinetic studies were investigated. the experiment was performed in a batch system and theeffect of solutio...