The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from ...

Shellfish are extremely important to various ocean ecosystems globally, yet they are some of the most overlooked species. One example is the Atlantic giant cockle, which feeds on plankton, helping to ...

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

On Dec. 14, 2025, Taryn Smith embarked on a journey to row across the Atlantic alone ...

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 ...

A loggerhead sea turtle has returned to the Atlantic Ocean after rehabilitation at a Florida turtle hospital. The turtle, ...

A 25-year-old woman, Taryn Smith, documented her 3,000 mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean for the World's Toughest Row.

Learn more about how Earth’s crust unzipped beneath the Atlantic Ocean, creating a giant underwater canyon.

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.