Around five million years ago, Earth may have witnessed the largest flood in recorded history. This flood, according to ...

A century-old mystery of a stubborn cold patch in the North Atlantic is finally being unraveled. A new study links this ...

Imagine the entire Mediterranean Sea disappeared, leaving behind an empty, sun-baked salt plain stretching from Spain to the Middle East. Then imagine the Atlantic Ocean suddenly crashing through ...

During the Messinian Salinity Crisis, the Mediterranean Sea became isolated from the Atlantic Ocean and evaporated, leading to vast salt deposits which reshaped the region's landscape. For years ...

The Mediterranean Sea, today a glimmering cradle of civilizations ... something stunning happened—water from the Atlantic Ocean burst through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar like a juggernaut.

For more than a century, a patch of cold water south of Greenland has resisted the Atlantic Ocean's overall warming, fueling ...

Parts of the Atlantic Ocean are again much warmer than normal, priming Europe for more extreme heat this summer.

Research ships rarely brave the Greenland Sea in winter. Early this year, scientists ventured into the ice-covered waters to ...

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean transformed from a thriving sea to a giant salt basin ... cutting the Mediterranean off from the Atlantic Ocean.

Just below Greenland is a menacing stretch of water known as the Cold Blob. As the planet heats up, the Cold Blob remains a ...

In the Atlantic Ocean, white corals are ... Faunas of the deep Mediterranean Sea. Project Report for the preparation of a Strategic Action Plan for the Conservation of Biological Diversity in the ...