Certain migratory species of sharks may remain swimming and feeding in Atlantic Ocean waters in areas of the northeast coast ...

For over a century, scientists have noticed something unusual in the North Atlantic Ocean. While most oceans around the globe steadily warm, the region south of Greenland has stubbornly cooled, ...

The report by the Center for Conservation Biology at William and Mary found a 90% decline in the number of nesting pairs of ...

A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Researchers will explore 12 ecosystems, including: ... A humpback whale sails through the air in the Atlantic Ocean, where researchers plan to carry out expeditions.

Changes in ocean circulation may have caused a shift in Atlantic Ocean ecosystems not seen for the past 10,000 years, new analysis of deep-sea fossils has revealed.

A single-celled alga that went extinct in the North Atlantic Ocean about 800,000 years ago has returned after drifting from the Pacific through the Arctic thanks to melting polar ice.

Motes of plastic less than a micrometer across could outnumber larger fragments and particles floating through the oceans to ...

New research finds an estimated 27 million tons of nanoplastics in the North Atlantic, raising concerns for marine ecosystems and human health.

Beneath the Atlantic Ocean, scientists are doing new research on the Hydrothermal Field, an undersea world that may hold the answer ...

How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? ... Not to mention the trees themselves, which, in addition to supporting an intricate ecosystem, absorb tons of carbon from the atmosphere.