It’s an apt metaphor, because the weed forms a kind of canopy at the ocean surface. Sargassum brings to my mind a floating reef or even a marine grassland—a Serengeti of the sea. Its tangled ...

A consortium based in South West England, led by Morek Engineering, has unveiled its design concept for a new vessel class ...

because of an optical illusion that makes the body of water appear to “float” above the ocean. Located on Vágar, one of the 18 islands that makes up the Danish archipelago between Iceland and ...

The world is full of beautiful lakes, but very few of them can be described as “floating on an ocean.” Nonetheless, a spot ...

A record amount of sargassum seaweed is lurking in the Atlantic Ocean, just east of Florida. Sargassum is a yellowish-brown floating macroalgae that crabs, sea turtles, shrimp and other marine ...

Alongside the floating sea anemones, fresh sargassum seaweed has ... shrimp and crabs in the open ocean. I always enjoy shaking it out to see what critters fall out, including shrimp, crabs ...

A global survey of microplastics in oceans reveals that tiny particles of plastic are prevalent throughout the water column, ...

But catch the angle just right and you’ll immediately understand why the site has been dubbed “the lake above the ocean ... is truly hovering above the sea. Much like Firefall in Yosemite ...

Aerial view of Lake Sørvágsvatn over the ocean in the Faroe Islands, Denmark.