In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown ...

Tropical cyclones typically drop large amounts of rain along and near the storm's path. The slower and more significant the ...

This map from the National Weather Service shows the seven-day tropical weather outlook in the Atlantic Ocean as of Wednesday. Forecasters are concerned by the development of a system in the ...

We are going back 55 million years. That was when Greenland and Norway began to drift apart, causing the Atlantic Ocean to ...

The National Hurricane Center said Monday that it is tracking two disturbances in the Atlantic Ocean. A tropical wave is several hundred miles east of the Windward Islands. Although the system has ...

Iceberg "A23a," which is five times bigger than New York City, is heading towards the southern Atlantic Ocean after being stuck for almost four decades.

One factor behind the Atlantic warmth: weak winds over the ocean, Klotzbach said. That discourages evaporation, which would allow the waters to cool by transferring heat into the air.

They lived and worked with the crew last month as it mapped the Atlantic Ocean floor 1,500 feet below on an 186-foot research vessel off the coast of South Carolina.