Every year, millions of tourists flock to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico expecting pristine beaches. Increasingly, they’re greeted instead by piles of rotting seaweed that stretch for miles, giving ...

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is an immense, recurring accumulation of brown macroalgae drifting across the tropical Atlantic Ocean. Composed of the floating seaweed Sargassum, this natural ...

POINTE-PARENT, Quebec – Contender, the largest male great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic, is on the move and was recently pinged off the coast of Canada. Ocearch, the company that tagged ...

The algae originally come from the Sargasso Sea, located east of Florida. However, since 2011, researchers have repeatedly observed the so-called Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, a gigantic carpet of ...

Cue the “Jaws” theme song. The largest great white shark ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean has reemerged near Canada, according to researchers who have been tracking the magnificent fish. Contender, ...

Contender, an almost 14-foot male great white shark, recently had a location ping in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean OCEARCH A hefty great white shark has resurfaced — but the creature's ...

During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean's powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

Forecasters are tracking a broad area of low pressure associated with a tropical wave in the Atlantic that has a medium to high chance of developing into a tropical cyclone, the National Hurricane ...