A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts near Bermuda in the slow swirl of the Sargasso Sea, part of the North Atlantic gyre. A weed mass this small may shelter thousands of ...

A Sargasso Sea Commission supported proposal for a humpback whale migratory corridor passing Bermuda has been formally approved. A spokesperson said, “The ‘Important Marine Mammal Area ...

now a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. “He had an eclectic lifestyle.” Also an oceanographer, Mr. Teal went on several journeys to the Sargasso Sea throughout the ...