Tharp’s map provided some of the necessary missing evidence. If the ocean floor was spreading apart at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

There is no tropical activity for Florida's forecast for the next week as the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season nears.

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge stands out in glorious detail on this map of the Atlantic Ocean Floor by Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp. Painted by Heinrich C. Berann, it was published as a supplement to the ...

The set of mostly undersea peaks, known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR), separates the North American plate from the Eurasian plate, and the South American plate from the African plate.

But the small island is perched on the summit of a 10,000-foot underwater volcano in the mid-Atlantic ridge, one of the world’s longest mountain ranges. On August 24, the Ascension Island ...

Using a remote-operated vehicle (ROV) system to explore and map out the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (north of the Azores) and the Azores Plateau, the NOAA was planning to examine deep-sea coral and sponge ...

Kaitlin Lewis is a Newsweek reporter on the Night Team based in Boston, Massachusetts. Her focus is reporting on national news and politics, where she has covered events such as the 2022 Midterm ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (CBS) -- Along Atlantic City's western back bay in Scott Haynes' backyard is an example of his resiliency, anchored in a pile of broken concrete. "Instead of the cost of having ...