Deep in Earth's past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a U.S. government ship searching for ...

Measurements by buoys at four latitudes in the western Atlantic provide the strongest evidence yet that the Atlantic ...

Far below the waves of the Atlantic, scientists are mapping out a hidden world of water that never meets the light of day. From buried freshwater aquifers to deep mantle minerals that behave like ...

Scientists have detected a northward Gulf Stream shift that may signal a looming Atlantic climate tipping point.

"El Niño conditions are associated with fewer tropical storms and hurricanes, especially in the western Atlantic Ocean Basin, ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...