The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink, said a new study published in the journal Geology. Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the ...

The Atlantic Ocean is cooling at an exponential rate, and nobody is sure why. It's been more than a year of record-high ...

For an ocean such as the Atlantic to stop growing and shut itself off, new subduction zones must form within it – areas where ...

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 ...