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Dust carried across the Atlantic is one of the great wonders of the weather world. This is the most significant cloud so far ...
Tharp was a pioneering cartographer and geologist whose meticulous maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor revealed the unseen and ...
An international effort aims to assess the environmental impact of nuclear waste dumped in the ocean over half a century ago.
The vast stretch of ocean between the Americas and Europe ... into the Atlantic in about 20 million years, forming an Atlantic ring of fire like the one surrounding the Pacific. Maps from the ...
Even though the practice is now banned, more than 200,000 barrels filled with radioactive waste lie at the bottom of the ...
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, commonly referred to as the "AMOC," is a system of ocean currents confined ...
Tectonic plates under the Americas, Europe, and Africa are separating as the Atlantic Ocean grows wider. A 2021 study suggests atypically hot material, 410 miles underground, is rising and forcing ...
Weather forecasts in Portugal are calling for skies "obscured by smoke particles" on Tuesday as Canada's persistent wildfires begin to affect Europe ... across the Atlantic Ocean, according ...
This part of the Atlantic ... temperatures in this patch of ocean have hardly budged. In some years they’ve even cooled. If you get a thrill from spooky maps, check out one that compares ...
They lived and worked with the crew last month as it mapped the Atlantic Ocean floor 1,500 ... The NOAA cruises used multibeam sonar to scan and map the ocean floor as part of a project titled ...