Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Known as the Sargasso Sea, sailors have crossed it for centuries, but few notice the border when they slip into glassy indigo ...

More than a century after the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, the world’s most famous shipwreck is being seen in a new way.

Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off the coast of Guinea-Bissau in west Africa. The massive underwater ...

The expected busy season is due to the presence of unusually warm water in the Atlantic Ocean where hurricanes form, along with the predicted absence of an El Niño, which can inhibit hurricane ...

Scientists have discovered a 120,000-year-old Lost City under the Atlantic Ocean. This city thrives without sunlight, with unique fauna surviving on chemicals from underwater vents. Life forms ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation funnels heat northwards through the Atlantic Ocean and is crucial for controlling climate and marine ecosystems. It’s weaker now than at any other ...

the National Oceanography Centre and Stockholm University analysed ocean data from 1979 to 2021 to better understand how the mixing of Atlantic and Arctic waters helps to maintain the AMOC.

A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents that influences weather across the world could collapse as soon as the late 2030s, scientists have suggested in a new study — a planetary-scale disaster ...

This part of the Atlantic ... temperatures in this patch of ocean have hardly budged. In some years they’ve even cooled. If you get a thrill from spooky maps, check out one that compares ...