A large system of ocean currents in the Atlantic – which includes the Gulf Stream – has been disrupted due to human-caused climate change, scientists reported in a new study published Thursday.

In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

A newly discovered crack in the Earth's crust could pull North America and Europe together and cause the Atlantic Ocean to vanish in about 220 million years, scientists say. A new map of the ...

A patch of ocean in the North Atlantic is stubbornly cooling while much of the planet warms. This anomaly -- dubbed the 'cold blob' -- has been linked to changes in ocean circulation, but a new ...

It's more than 41 million square miles, the second-largest ocean on Earth after the Pacific Ocean. Scientists and geographers broadly separate the Atlantic in terms of north and south.

The "mud waves" discovered off the coast of Africa, under the Atlantic Ocean, are hundreds of feet high and almost a mile long.© courtesy of D Duarte et al/Heriot-Watt University ...

Commerce between Europe and North America has literally come to a halt. For the first time in known history, not one cargo ship is in-transit in the North Atlantic between Europe and North America ...

Because the currents are a huge source of heat redistribution globally, a shutdown could have a complex array of consequences, from rainfall disruptions in the southern hemisphere, to even greater sea ...

In the North Atlantic, one arm of the Gulf Stream breaks toward Iceland, transporting vast amounts of warmth far northward, by one estimate supplying Scandinavia with heat equivalent to 78,000 ...

Letter Published: 23 September 1886 The Geological Age of the North Atlantic Ocean EDWARD HULL Nature 34, 496 (1886) Cite this article ...