Rutgers University marine scientists are using New Jersey-developed tools to measure how iron shortages in Southern Ocean phytoplankton reduce photosynthetic efficiency and slow the conversion of light into oxygen.

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

The Atlantic Ocean is cooling at an exponential rate, and nobody is sure why. It's been more than a year of record-high global sea temperatures, including being close to the collapse of the AMOC. Despite those troubles, though, the Atlantic is now ...

Scientists are increasingly convinced that the Atlantic’s great conveyor belt of heat and salt is edging toward a critical threshold, one that could reshape weather, food security and sea levels for generations.

With 2025's hurricane season just around the corner, meteorologists tracking the Atlantic Ocean are seeing an unexpected development. According to reporting by USA Today, a patch of the eastern Atlantic isn't warming at the same rate, which could have ...

He’s gonna need a bigger boat. A sailor’s record-setting quest to cross the Atlantic Ocean in the smallest boat ever ended in tears when the 3-foot 10-inch boat began taking on water shortly after his departure and smashed on a seawall as it was being ...

The claim: Atlantic Ocean cooling shows climate change is a 'lie' An Aug. 26 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a headline attributed to New Scientist that reads, "The Atlantic Ocean is Cooling at Record Pace, and Nobody Knows Why." The post ...

People ran into the Atlantic Ocean to kick off 2026 in the 21st annual Fenwick Freeze. Dozens of people jumped in-place to await the whistle that kicked off the event.

So far, the efforts to observe the currents directly show they're weirder and more unpredictable than expected. On a Saturday morning in December of 2020, the RRS Discovery floated in calm waters just east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the massive undersea ...

Atlantic General Hospital is hosting its 32nd annual penguin swim in Ocean City, Maryland, on Jan. 1, 2026. Check out this guide to the big event.

Watch a senior golden retriever rediscover her puppy side with a new sibling