It washes up on local shores from the Gulf of Mexico and consists of everything from red drift algae to Portuguese Man 'O War. It's called beach wrack, and it's a normal part of a natural, unmanicured ...

It may seem like a dirty idea, but a city advisory board is suggesting a stretch of city beachfront go au naturel. The board isn’t talking about naked beachgoers. It just wants cleaning crews to leave ...

To rake or not to rake? That is the question. La Jolla Parks & Beaches (LJP&B) board chair Ann Dynes “kicked a hornet’s nest” when she introduced the notion of cleaning up wrack (seaweed that has ...

Mountains of seaweed are annoying beachgoers in Brevard County just in time for the holiday weekend.Getting rid of the seaweed would be a monumental job at Jetty Park, a job that is not planned. As ...

In this miserably hot weather, the coolest place in Central Florida is the beach, but in Brevard County, the beach has some issues of its own. From Port Canaveral to Melbourne Beach, the whole Brevard ...

“Life’s a beach.” That’s what they say. This is a species of an oceanic, or “marine”, algae. It is indeed, one of the many species of "seaweeds", a very non-technical term, but a term that is useful.

Piles of beach wrack lie on the sand as clouds fill the sky in Brigantine, N.J., Thursday, April 9, 2020. (Lori M. Nichols | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) The Jersey Shore is a must-go-to destination ...