The Atlantic is already the saltiest of Earth’s oceans, and parts of it are getting saltier. Winds and warming may be to ...

As another example, rising salt levels in the ocean might make it harder for oxygen and nutrients to move between surface and deeper waters, reducing its ability to support plant and algae growth.

The oceans play a pivotal role in drawing down atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) and have so far acted as a brake on the full ...

A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts near Bermuda in the slow swirl of the Sargasso Sea, part of the North Atlantic gyre ... like it in any other ocean,’ says marine ...

Researchers warn that the newly discovered animals could already be under ... ocean currents and depositions of fossils on the seabed revealed that the major currents in the North Atlantic have ...

Researchers found that an inactive subduction zone under the Strait of Gibraltar may begin migrating into the Atlantic Ocean, commencing the shrinking process. The zone also brings a higher risk ...

For a few months this summer, a large strip of Atlantic Ocean along the ... which is confined to a stretch of ocean spanning several degrees north and south of the equator, formed in early June ...

Further north of town is Lincolnville Beach, which is especially popular with families because of its wide sandy shore and ...

Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute, photographed under NOAA permit #20556 The birth of Squilla’s calf was a momentous event for their species, the highly endangered North Atlantic ...

But on Friday Savin's canoe was found overturned off the Azores, an island chain in the North Atlantic Ocean, by Portuguese maritime officials. The exact circumstances of his death have not yet ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management denied the seismic airgun survey applications in part because the loud blasts would hurt endangered North Atlantic right whales and other sensitive wildlife.