About 56 million years ago, Europe and North America began pulling apart to form what became the ever-expanding North Atlantic Ocean. Vast amounts of molten rock from Earth's mantle reached the ocean ...

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that volcanic eruptions during the Ice Age may have triggered sudden climate change by disrupting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

A North Atlantic right whale washed ashore on a Virginia barrier island, according to federal scientists, marking the second ...

Levels of legacy PFAS “forever chemicals” are falling in North Atlantic long-finned pilot whales after industry phaseouts, ...

The U.S.’s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing ...

A home covered in snow and ice collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean. A total of four unoccupied houses collapsed in the wake of a bomb cyclone.

Han’s team estimates that the area covered by salty seawater in this Southern Indian Ocean region has shrunk by about 30% over the past 60 years. They describe it as the fastest freshening seen ...

It's nearly 14 feet long and weighs 1,653 pounds, scientists say.

A look at what we know and don't yet know about how climate change could affect the paths of these storms — and the all-important question of how often they'll make landfall.

Off the coast of Cape Cod, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is a unique stretch of ocean that had been protected for a decade.

Understanding how the oceans behaved in the past — especially during extremely cold periods — is crucial for testing the models used to project future climate change. The peak of the last ice age, the ...