Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Tropical Storm Chantal (shahn-TAHL) was the first tropical storm to make landfall and the third named storm of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm will be remembered for bringing tropical ...

This anomaly, which has cooled even as surrounding waters have warmed, is now better understood thanks to new research led by ...

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 ...

Sometimes, the North Sea just decides to take a shot at you. Henk Buitjes knows what it’s like. Once, it happened at night in rough weather. The Dutch shrimp fisher was hauling his nets aboard ...

A massive ocean survey finds plastic in every layer of the North Atlantic, revealing how deeply it has invaded marine ecosystems.

Credit: Shutterstock Mysterious seismic signals from massive North Atlantic storms are rippling through Earth’s core and surfacing in remote Australia. Scientists from the Australian National ...

The Milky Way’s big crash with Andromeda might not be a sure thing. Plus, we discuss an overheated ocean, a giant planet circling a tiny star and worms that build living towers.

Photo: Richard Freeman In June and July of 2023, the North Atlantic winds were weaker than ever recorded, “so the upper layer of the ocean was thinner than ever recorded”, he said. In some areas it ...

The demonstration focused on collecting bathymetric data along the established Anjana cable route and the recently surveyed Aurora route to directly compare the Saildrone Surveyor’s performance ...

Saildrone, in partnership with Meta, completed a 26-day uncrewed deep-water cable route survey in the North Atlantic using the Saildrone Surveyor, a 65.6’ uncrewed surface vehicle (USV). The mission, ...