Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown — an ...

A conflict-driven reroute of international ships exposed how dramatically cleaner fuel reduces cloud formation.

A century-old North Atlantic cold patch is now linked to a long-term slowdown in the AMOC, the climate-regulating conveyor belt of ocean water. Only weakened-AMOC models match observed temperature and ...

Earth is relentlessly heating. So it's strange that there's a persistent "cold blob" in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. "Anthropogenic climate change changes the circuitry of the climate system," ...

He’s gonna need a bigger boat. A sailor’s record-setting quest to cross the Atlantic Ocean in the smallest boat ever ended in tears when the 3-foot 10-inch boat began taking on water shortly after his ...

Researchers found that eroded lava rubble beneath the South Atlantic can trap enormous amounts of CO2 for tens of millions of years. These porous breccia deposits store far more carbon than previously ...

Every year, millions of tourists flock to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico expecting pristine beaches. Increasingly, they’re ...

This discovery has shocked the masses and experts. This is not something you would expect to find under an ocean. It also makes sense in a way. It is buried under layers of rock and sand. It is ...

The hurricane season has subsided, and action has picked up on the world's oceans with a big Atlantic race, and soloists on ...

Scientists confirmed the first east-to-west Atlantic migration of a North Atlantic right whale, traveling 3,000 miles from ...