If 4-foot-deep piles of red algae washing up along the Texas coast weren't enough to get beachgoers' attention, the smell certainly was. This week, a long stretch of the South Packery Jetty in Corpus ...

Forget the fireworks, spectators gathering on the shores of south-east Tasmania last night were treated to a light show of a ...

Red algae called Digenea simplex is lining a long stretch of the beach and piling up as high as 4 feet in some areas. The thick, hairy red algae grows in large mats that look a lot like stinky seaweed ...