In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

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 ...

The vast stretch of ocean between the Americas and Europe may be about to close soon—on a geological timescale. Just before the continents begin to drift back together, an "Atlantic ring of fire ...

TWO recent publications summarise more or less thoroughly our present knowledge of the physical features of the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. One gives an account by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen of ...

An AMOC collapse would usher in global weather and climate shifts — including plunging temperatures in Europe, which relies on the current system for its mild conditions.

Contributions to the Physical History of the British Isles; with a Dissertation on the Origin of Western Europe and of the Atlantic Ocean.. Illustrated by 27 Coloured Maps.

When the fate of an ocean current system tops headlines during a historic heat wave, it’s a strange week for climate science. A new study last week predicted the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

The OMZ map showed that during the Pliocene, low-oxygen waters were much more widespread in the Atlantic Ocean – particularly in the North Atlantic. The North Pacific, on the other hand, had ...

The newly discovered water mass, called the Atlantic Equatorial Water, stretches from Brazil to West Africa. Scientists have discovered a previously undetected water mass in the middle of the ...