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In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...
Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...
The Atlantic Ocean is cooling at an exponential rate, and nobody is sure why. It's been more than a year of record-high ...
You think you know the Civ 6 map pretty well, and then something like this comes along. Reddit user Kyfigrigas looked at the icon for Civ 6's Huge Earth map and noticed something the rest of us ...
Forecasters on Tuesday morning were tracking disturbances in open Atlantic Ocean waters and the Caribbean Sea. Where are these systems heading? Here’s the 1 a.m. advisory from the National ...
They lived and worked with the crew last month as it mapped the Atlantic Ocean floor 1,500 feet below on an 186-foot research vessel off the coast of South Carolina.
For more than a century, a patch of cold water south of Greenland has resisted the Atlantic Ocean's overall warming, fueling debate among scientists. A new study identifies the cause as the long ...
In the coming months, the Ocean Seeker will undergo a $2-million retrofit to carry sophisticated sonars and lasers capable of capturing highly detailed images of the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.
Ocean garbage A new atlas of the world's oceans points the finger at countries responsible for giant floating patches of garbage, say researchers. By redefining the boundaries of the world's ...
Ed Raymont and Victoria Mico Egea keep the secret for two weeks, finishing the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge in 45 days – and with a marlin’s snout embedded in their cabin.