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Gorringe seamount expedition reveals threats facing ocean biodiversity
The Gorringe seamount, located 200 kilometres off the Portuguese coast in the Atlantic Ocean, is the tallest underwater mountain in western Europe. Formed where the African and Eurasian tectonic ...
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Seamount twice the size of world's tallest building discovered 'hidden under the waves'
The 5,250-foot-tall (1,600 meters) formation is a seamount ... Ocean Institute mapping expedition aboard Falkor (too) revealed three new hydrothermal vent fields on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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Key Atlantic current could collapse soon, 'impacting the entire world for centuries to come,' leading climate scientists warn
Forty-four of the world's leading climate scientists have called on Nordic policymakers to address the potentially imminent and "devastating" collapse of key Atlantic Ocean currents. The currents ...
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Microplastic in Atlantic Ocean 'could weigh 21 million tonnes'
There are 12-21 million tonnes of tiny plastic fragments floating in the Atlantic Ocean, scientists have found. A study, led by the UK's National Oceanography Centre, scooped through layers of the ...
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Mountains in the Sea
Of all Earth’s seamounts, marine biologists have studied only a few hundred. More finely detailed maps of the surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists ...
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Is There Another Hurricane Coming and When Is Hurricane Season Over?
This year's Atlantic hurricane season has been a dramatic one, with the U.S. coast repeatedly slammed by powerful storms. The hurricane season runs between June 1 and November 30 every year, and ...
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The Atlantic Ocean - Black Hole of Andros
The Atlantic is the second largest ocean on the planet. It is the resting place of the Titanic, home to the mysterious Bermuda Triangle and is the youngest of the Earth's great oceans. It reaches ...
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Hurricane Kirk strengthens into a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic
Hurricane Kirk rapidly strengthened into a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic Ocean Thursday, and is expected to continue to grow – as swaths of the US are still paralyzed by the damage from ...
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UN ocean target to be missed by eight decades, Greenpeace analysis finds
The UN nature target to protect and restore 30% of nature by 2030 will not be achieved in ocean environments until 2107, an analysis by Greenpeace has found. With the UN Biodiversity Cop16 in Cali ...
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An unusual October hurricane is growing in the Atlantic
DON’T MISS: How Hurricane Helene produced 700+ mm of rain in three days A new tropical depression formed in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean on Sunday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC ...
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The Atlantic Weekly
The Atlantic Weekly provides a curated selection of some of the very best pieces that appear every week across The Atlantic’s Web sites (TheAtlantic.com, TheAtlanticWire.com, and ...