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Scientists discovered something truly chilling lurking deep in the Atlantic Ocean, and it’s straight out of a sci-fi movie.
A report from a European news wire agency on the reversal of an important ocean current has sparked alarm online.
What Are Ocean Predators Doing So Deep Underwater? Whale sharks can dive more than a mile deep. Marine biologists are still trying to figure out why they bother.
The first four are the Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans, but the US Board on Geographic Names recognized a fifth ocean a bit more than 20 years ago. The Antarctic, or Southern ocean ...
The deepest point of the ocean – the Mariana Trench – is 11,034 metres deep. It’s located in the western part of the Pacific Ocean and is a 1,580-mile-long stretch (2,542 kilometres) of ...
NewsHour’s science producer Nsikan Akpan and producer Matt Ehrichs investigate this question on a voyage deep below the Atlantic Ocean. Full Episode. Tuesday, Mar 25. Close Menu.
A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...
An upsurge of material deep below the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a seafloor rift seen in the middle of this false-color map, may be actively widening the Atlantic Ocean by a few centimeters every year.
The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink, said a new study published in the journal Geology. Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the ...
Coral in an area in the Atlantic Ocean stretching from Connecticut to Virginia has been protected from deep-sea commercial fishing gear, by a new rule issued this week by the National Oceanic and ...