Basking sharks are harmless to humans, said Jon Dodd of the Atlantic Shark Institute,“ but ”that didn’t prevent people from getting real excited and really anxious.” ...

In the Atlantic Ocean, a system of currents carries vast amounts of warm, salty surface water northward. As this water ...

The United States was effectively cut off from the rest of the world. As the maritime historian Salvatore R. Mercogliano ...

Portugal and surfing go hand-in-hand these days. The wild Atlantic coastline, stretching north to south, is blessed with ...

While gray whales and killer whales are the most well known whales off the Oregon coast, the state boasts many other species ...

Could Mississippi get derechos this summer? AccuWeather forecast says Gulf could get hot weather and severe storms. What to ...

More than one-fifth of the global ocean—an area spanning more than 75 million sq km—has been the subject of ocean darkening ...

The Sargasso Sea is a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre - and the only sea in the ...

Deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, scientists have uncovered enormous fossilized ...

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 Atlantic Ocean was formed by the dramatic break-up of the supercontinent Pangea, splintering our planet into drifting landmasses that would become the continents we know today. Now ...