Tropical Storm Dexter formed off the coast of North Carolina Aug. 3. National Hurricane Center monitoring two other systems.

The National Hurricane Center is now tracking four tropical waves with the development of a new one in the Caribbean.

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

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 ...

Gil is the seventh named storm to form in the Eastern Pacific in 2025. Storms that form in the Atlantic or the Pacific generally move west, meaning Atlantic storms pose a greater threat to North ...

La Niña and its opposite, El Niño, explained. NOAA. A similar climate phenomenon, Atlantic Niña, occurs in the Atlantic Ocean but at a much smaller scale and amplitude.

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 ...

Instruments deployed in the ocean starting in 2004 show that the Atlantic Ocean circulation has observably slowed over the past two decades, possibly to its weakest state in almost a millennium.