Governments of Senegal and Mali are angry at how their nationals are being treated in the northwest African nation.

At least 89 migrants died when their boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania on Monday ... The boat capsized off the coast, in the Atlantic Ocean, about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the ...

Pakistan said on Thursday it had been informed by its embassy in Morocco that a boat carrying 80 passengers, including some ...

According to geologists at the UK’s Heriot Watt University, gigantic waves of mud and sand sediment about 250 miles off the ...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez begins his visit in Mauritania before continuing ... fall when sailing conditions in the deadly Atlantic Ocean between West Africa and the Spanish archipelago ...

Animal and plant life needs iron to thrive, and in much of the Atlantic Ocean, that micronutrient ... This region, located between Mauritania and Chad, is known for wind patterns that transport ...

As dust from the Sahara blows thousands of kilometers across the Atlantic Ocean, it becomes progressively more nutritious for marine microbes, a new study suggests. Dust clouds settling on the ...

Enormous "mud waves" buried under the Atlantic seabed formed 117 million years ago as the Atlantic Ocean opened up.

In the main region of the Atlantic Ocean where hurricanes develop, water temperatures are "absolutely stunning," said Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate studying hurricanes at the ...

And heat moving on this conveyer belt influences the climate, particularly around the Atlantic Ocean. This movement is fueled by changes in salt and temperature. As warm water flows north ...