Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea became a basin of desolation, cut off from the global ocean during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). This period saw ...

The suckers are also packed with sensory receptors that allow the octopus to taste and smell things that they touch—like combining a hand with a tongue and a nose. The researchers believe the ...

What's in a name change, after all? The water bordered by the Southern United States, Mexico and Cuba will be critical to ...

"While a general 1 to perhaps 3 inches of snow is forecast, there can be pockets where a coating or a dusting of snow could be all that falls from the storm, especially along the upper mid-Atlantic ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great ... led to a low spot in the topography of the region, which glaciers later scraped out during the ice age.

The much-anticipated ferry slated for service between Wood Islands, P.E.I., and Caribou, N.S., is crossing the Atlantic Ocean on its way to the Maritimes, Transport Canada says. The ferry ...

The company also will attempt to land the rocket's first stage on a recovery vessel on the Atlantic Ocean so it can be reused. This is similar to SpaceX's recovery of the Falcon 9. Kennedy Space ...

Trump tried in 2017 to reverse Arctic and Atlantic Ocean withdrawals Obama had made at the end of his presidency, but a federal judge ruled in 2019 that the law does not give presidents the legal ...

Now, a growing group of scientists and companies say they’ve found a way to increase that storage capacity by tweaking ocean water chemistry ... operation along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

This animation shows data taken by NASA’s PACE and the international SWOT satellites over a region of the North Atlantic Ocean ... indicate areas of the ocean with the same height, much like the lines ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor ... of measurements from NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, launched in ...

It’s common knowledge that heat rises. The same goes for warmer waters. Cooler waters from the Nordic Seas flow through the Denmark Strait and out towards the Atlantic Ocean. Before reaching the ...