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ValueWalk
April 17, 2018
A new report suggests that the currents in the Atlantic Ocean are at the slowest pace they've been in 1000 years – largely due to the effects of global warming. Global warming has already had marked effects on our environment, and it appears as if these changes show no sign of slowing down. The currentsÃâà...
The TeCake
April 17, 2018
A new study has revealed that the Atlantic Ocean circulation or the Atlantic overturning has become the weakest in the last 1600 years. The study says the climate change is the main reason behind the slowing down of Atlantic overturning. As per the study, the Atlantic Ocean circulation has declined inÃâà...
Springfield News Sun
April 15, 2018
A Greenon 8th-grade teacher is spending 18 days at sea to learn more about marine life so he can share the knowledge with his students. Tom Jenkins, who teaches science and STEM at Greenon Junior/Senior High School, was accepted into the NOAA teacher at sea program. The program allows him toÃâà...
CapeNews.net
April 15, 2018
When it comes to regulating global climate, the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean plays a key role. The constantly moving system of deep-water circulation, sometimes referred to as the Global Ocean Conveyor Belt, sends warm, salty Gulf Stream water to the North Atlantic, where it releases heat to theÃâà...
Newsweek
April 14, 2018
Two new scientific papers have confirmed that currents in the Atlantic Ocean are slowing down. Ocean currents play a large role in global weather, and a slowdown in the Atlantic could mean serious weather changes, particularly in Europe and North America. The two studies, both published in the onlineÃâà...
Science News
April 3, 2018
A new map of the surrounding seafloor helps explain why: Many of the fastest-melting glaciers sit atop deep fjords that allow Atlantic Ocean water to melt them from below. Researchers led by glaciologist Romain Millan of the University of California, Irvine analyzed new oceanographic and topographic dataÃâà...
WeatherNation
April 2, 2018
In 2014, before the rollout of Seabed 2030, the U.S., Canadian, and European Union governments came together in an effort to foster cooperation and increase knowledge of the Atlantic Ocean through improved coordination and collaboration in ocean observation efforts. Thanks to the “Galway StatementÃâà...
Yonhap News
April 2, 2018
SEOUL, April 2 (Yonhap) -- China's defunct space station is likely to plunge to the Earth after 9 a.m. Monday somewhere in the South Atlantic Ocean, South Korean space authorities here said. The Tiangong-1 is forecast to plunge to the Earth as early as 9:10 a.m., the state-run Korea Astronomy and SpaceÃâà...
WPEC
April 1, 2018
The two occupants of a small, private plane died after crashing into the Atlantic Ocean approximately 20 miles off the coast of the St. Lucie Inlet on Saturday, according to a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman. "The Miami Air Traffic Control Center notified the USCG of a suspected downed aircraft at approximately 11:45 a.m. TheÃâà...
The Patriot Ledger
March 31, 2018
MARSHFIELD - The Alper's house stood above the Atlantic Ocean for 115 years, withstanding subzero temperatures that left it encased in ice and punishing blizzards that toppled other coastal homes and left nearby streets filled with cobblestones. Allen Alper, who lived there since 1999, called the homeÃâà...
BBC News
March 31, 2018
The Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge is considered one of the world's toughest rows. Participants cross 3,000 miles (4,828 km) of Atlantic Ocean from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to Antigua in the Caribbean. Here, Elaine Theaker, 54, from Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, reveals what it was likeÃâà...
WIRED
March 30, 2018
At New Jersey's Rutgers University, marine ecologist Grace Saba wants to know more about the ecological winners and losers on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. Next month, she is preparing to launch one of the first ocean acidity sensors on an underwater drone that will dive into cold pool of bottom waterÃâà...
Asbury Park Press
March 29, 2018
Built-in 1950, this single family home is in an attractive location and stands high and proud on a natural bluff that offers amazing elevated views of the Atlantic Ocean. Relax in the living room around the floor to ceiling fireplace. (Photo: Courtesy of Edward Szumski). Selling for $3.4 million, this 2,151 squareÃâà...
Scuttlebutt Sailing News
March 29, 2018
Ever wonder how keelboats travel to compete in the fabulous international regattas? This video shows the regular Transatlantic shipping Peters & May offers both to and from the Caribbean / USA and Mediterranean / Northern Europe. Tags: Peters & MayÃâà...
Courthouse News Service
March 28, 2018
WASHINGTON (CN) – Fisherman and lobstermen reeled in a temporary victory after a federal court agreed to lift a 10-month stay on a lawsuit which seeks to reverse Obama-era protections for the first national marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean. In September 2016, former President Barack ObamaÃâà...
Science News for Students
March 21, 2018
One such spot was the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, around Europe. Others were off the coasts of South America and West Africa. In those areas, cold, nutrient-rich water rises toward the surface from the deep ocean. The nutrients in that upwelling water helps nourish large populations of fish. SurprisinglyÃâà...
KFQD
March 21, 2018
Obama also banned exploration in 5,937 square miles (15,377 square kilometers) of Atlantic Ocean canyon complexes. Environmental groups say presidents can permanently withdraw areas but the law makes no provision to reopen areas. Trump in April ordered an Interior Department review of the banÃâà...
The Dispatch
March 21, 2018
28, a Cessna 172S airplane piloted by Marcson Ngwa, 28, of Windsor Mill, Md., allegedly accompanied by Benica Richards-Robinson, 28, of Gwynn Oak, Md., went down in the Atlantic Ocean about a mile from the Ocean City Municipal Airport. The following morning, when the rented airplane had notÃâà...
Straight.com
March 21, 2018
Facebook investigated on both sides of Atlantic Ocean after explosive allegations about Cambridge Analytica. by Charlie Smith on March 21st, 2018 at 8:41 AMÃâà...
Travel Weekly UK
March 20, 2018
Two brothers who spent 53 days rowing the Atlantic to raise Ãâã100,000 for the British Skin Foundation are sailing home on P&O Cruises flagship Britannia. Greg Bailey and Jude Massey, from Lymington, completed their 3,000-mile unsupported row, setting a Guinness World Record. Jude is now theÃâà...
Mashable
March 20, 2018
But the scientists aboard never made it to their destination: The Amundsen was diverted to rescue unsuspecting ships that had become entrapped by Arctic ice floes that moved into North Atlantic Ocean shipping lanes. In past years, these masses of Arctic ice had mostly stayed put in their proper oceanÃâà...
The Maritime Executive
March 19, 2018
More Arctic sea ice is entering the North Atlantic Ocean than before, making it increasingly dangerous for ships to navigate those waters in late spring, according to new research. Ocean passages typically plugged with ice in the winter and spring are opening up. Sea ice normally locked in the Arctic thenÃâà...
Press of Atlantic City
March 19, 2018
New Jersey State Senator Jeff Van Drew D-1, speaks at a press conference held in opposition to off-shore oil drilling. The Cape May County Chamber of Commerce held a press conference at the Music Pier on the Ocean City Boardwalk, Monday Feb. 26, 2018, in opposition to proposed off-shore oil drillingÃâà...
BBC News
March 14, 2018
Kelda Woods was crushed by a bale of hay weighing more than a tonne, putting an end to her career, working with horses. Twelve years on, she is preparing to be the first adaptive rower to cross the Atlantic Ocean. From Tenerife to Antigua, Kelda will dedicate each day to a young person with disabilities,Ãâà...
Tribune-Review
March 14, 2018
In the test, a rocket is launched over the Atlantic Ocean, and a vehicle containing the parachute and other measuring tools detaches from the rocket. The parachute opens to slow down this vehicle as it approaches the landing spot. While there is not an actual rover onboard the test vehicle, it matches theÃâà...
Phys.Org
March 14, 2018
Researchers report a sharp drop in salinity in the North Atlantic Ocean over the last decade, providing the most detailed look yet at changing ocean conditions in the region. Credit: Argo project. Salinity in the North Atlantic dropped dramatically over the last decade, according to a new study that used dataÃâà...
Boston Herald
March 14, 2018
Herring is a major fish population in the Atlantic Ocean, where the little fish are harvested for use as bait, food and fish oil. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says some herring boats in the southern New England and mid-Atlantic areas have reached a limit for the amount of shad andÃâà...
BBC News
March 14, 2018
Kelda Woods was crushed by a bale of hay weighing more than a tonne, putting an end to her career, working with horses. Twelve years on, she is preparing to be the first adaptive rower to cross the Atlantic Ocean. From Tenerife to Antigua, Kelda will dedicate each day to a young person with disabilities, to show them thatÃâà...
Globalnews.ca
March 14, 2018
A Port Hope man's treacherous three-month solo journey across the Atlantic Ocean has raised thousands of dollars to support people with intellectual disabilities. Colin Sanders's nearly 4,000 kilometre solo row wrapped up on March 2 as he was greeted by ship's horns when he rowed into English HarbourÃâà...
The Columbus Dispatch
March 13, 2018
Some of the gold Tommy G. Thompson recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is expected to be sold off as he continues to be held in contempt in federal court for not disclosing the location of more treasure. Coins, gold dust and gold bullion recovered from the S.S. Central America in 2014, whichÃâà...
Columbia Daily Tribune
March 13, 2018
In 1884, a family in Ireland chose to send five of their youngest children to the United States. The famine plaguing their country made them fear that these children could not survive. The journey across the Atlantic Ocean was long and tiresome for young children traveling in groups. As the Tom Knox arrivedÃâà...
BBC News
March 12, 2018
Two British brothers have completed a 3,000 mile unsupported row across the Atlantic Ocean. Greg Bailey and Jude Massey spent 53 days rowing in memory of their dad, Peter Massey, who died in 2015. Arriving in Barbados on Sunday 19-year-old Jude became the youngest person to row across anÃâà...
Hakai Magazine
March 12, 2018
This abrupt shift was triggered by a flush of warm water moving from the adjoining Atlantic Ocean deep into the coastal fjords, Gabrielsen says. “Immediately, you started to see Atlantic species getting into the food samples.” A decade on, this polar marine ecosystem appears more Atlantic than Arctic.
BBC News
March 12, 2018
Two British brothers have completed a 3,000 mile unsupported row across the Atlantic Ocean. Greg Bailey and Jude Massey spent 53 days rowing in memory of their dad, Peter Massey, who died in 2015. Arriving in Barbados on Sunday 19-year-old Jude became the youngest person to row across an ocean in a team ofÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
March 11, 2018
In the video, shot off the East Coast in 2015, the pilot can be heard getting excited about spotting the unidentified object as it speeds through the ocean. Christopher Mellon, an adviser at To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science wrote in the Washington Post that the footage proved that it "is time to setÃâà...
FOX 5 Atlanta
March 1, 2018
ORLANDO, Fla. (FOX 35 WOFL) - SeaWorld Orlando reports that 17 endangered sea turtles were returned to their natural environment by the SeaWorld Orlando rescue team at Canaveral National Seashore in Titusville. They said that the majority of the returned sea turtles were rescued in New EnglandÃâà...
Newsweek
February 23, 2018
A new species of shark has been discovered roaming the deep sea. The marine biologists who confirmed its existence have proposed it be called the “Atlantic sixgill shark.” The large animal found in the Atlantic Ocean has counterparts in the Indian and Pacific oceans, but the latest research using geneticÃâà...
Discover Magazine (blog)
February 22, 2018
Watch: Not just one but TWO hurricane-force storms swirling in the North Atlantic Ocean. By Tom Yulsman | February 22, 2018 8:51 pm ?Share ... An animation of GOES-16 weather satellite images of the North Atlantic Ocean starting on Feb. 18, 2018 and covering about 16 hours. (Source: RAMMB GOES-16 loop of the day).
Telegraph.co.uk
February 17, 2018
After nine weeks of hardship and isolation, former professional rugby player Damian Browne has successfully finished rowing solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The journey saw the Irishman travel more than three thousand miles without a support vessel and involved several complications, includingÃâà...
Science Magazine
February 17, 2018
PORTLAND, OREGON—Oceanographers have put a stethoscope on the coursing circulatory system of the Atlantic Ocean, and they have found a skittish pulse that's surprisingly strong in the waters east of Greenland—discoveries that should improve climate models. The powerful currents known as theÃâà...
Irish Times
February 15, 2018
He then set his sights on his next perilous venture: the Talisker Whisky Challenge and discovered that more people have climbed Everest and been into space than have successfully rowed the roaring Atlantic Ocean. Browne has been in training for this extreme event for two years, which included rowingÃâà...
Scientific American
December 31, 1999
But in the Atlantic “the heat is moving northward throughout the whole Atlantic Ocean,” says David Thornalley, a paleo-oceanographer at University College London and co-author of one of the new studies. The resulting heat imbalance between the Northern and Southern hemispheres determines severalÃâà...
CBS News
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON -- Global warming is likely slowing the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, which has plunged to its weakest level on record, according to a new study. The slowdown in the circulation -- a crucial part of Earth's climate -- had been predicted by computer models, but researchers said they can nowÃâà...
LIVEKINDLY
December 31, 1999
Three women are set to row the Atlantic Ocean this December in support of the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and its “Clean Seas” programme. Jess, Caroline, and Susan, aka team “Status Row”, will be taking part in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge and rowing for the entirety of the 50-day tripÃâà...
Scuttlebutt Sailing News
December 31, 1999
The Onion Patch Series and the Onion Patch Navigators Series brings together the New York Yacht Club 164th Annual Regatta (June 9-10), the Newport Bermuda Race (June 15-) and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club Anniversary Regatta (June 22). This is both an individual-boat and a team competition.
Dal News
December 31, 1999
Fifteen ocean research projects based in Atlantic Canada have received more than $25 million in funding, an investment that's expected to advance understanding of atmospheric and ecosystem change while also identifying ways to grow resource development in a sustainable way. The investment inÃâà...
The Conversation US
December 31, 1999
Sea snakes are found only in the Indian and Pacific oceans. For many years, herpetologists and biologists like me have pondered why there are no sea snakes in the Atlantic Ocean or the Caribbean Sea. With colleagues at the University of Florida and elsewhere, I've recently proposed some answers toÃâà...
The Daily Advertiser
December 31, 1999
Meet the first teen to row across the Atlantic Ocean solo. Oliver Crane, 19, is the youngest man to ever row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. During his journey, he raised nearly $70,000 for charity and learned quite a bit about himself. Oliver plans to attend Princeton where he'll major in Political Science.
Dazed
December 31, 1999
The Azores is a chain of nine volcanic islands in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, almost a thousand miles west of its mother country on the mainland Portugal. Though it has been historically isolated, in the last five years or so, airlines have begun to offer inexpensive flights. Just last month, there was,Ãâà...
