The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from Europe and Africa. Yet a growing body of research suggests this basin is far ...

Shellfish are extremely important to various ocean ecosystems globally, yet they are some of the most overlooked species. One example is the Atlantic giant cockle, which feeds on plankton, helping to ...

History was made this week when 25-year-old Taryn Smith, a yoga instructor from Nebraska, rowed into Antigua. It was the culmination of a 3,000 mile ...

A 25-year-old woman, Taryn Smith, documented her 3,000 mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean for the World's Toughest Row.

On Dec. 14, 2025, Taryn Smith embarked on a journey to row across the Atlantic alone ...

The last ice age did not shut down Atlantic ocean currents, and that discovery may help explain future climate risks.

How moving tectonic plates and rising heat from deep within Earth created one of the ocean’s largest canyons. On land, giant canyons like the Grand Canyon are usually the slow handiwork of rivers that ...

For centuries, the Atlantic Ocean was the center of global trade and power. It linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas in ways that transformed politics, culture, and economics. The rise of empires, ...

Learn more about how Earth’s crust unzipped beneath the Atlantic Ocean, creating a giant underwater canyon.

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.

Kyle Wills will take part in the World’s Toughest Row Atlantic ocean challenge beginning Dec. 12, 2026. The race will see him ...