The presence of a mid-ocean ridge doesn’t exaggerate biomass and biodiversity at all in the North Atlantic–not even close, in fact. This is the cool result from the ECOMAR project, a large multi-year ...

The shark, named Miss Costa, was about “300 nautical miles from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge,” the nonprofit OCEARCH reported in a March 31 Facebook post.

Mr. Magnason is an Icelandic writer and filmmaker; he wrote from Reykjavik. Ms. Hallgrímsdóttir is an Icelandic photographer.

New field of hydrothermal vents discovered along the mid-Atlantic ridge Date: August 5, 2011 Source: Marine Institute - Foras na Mara Summary: Oceanographers have discovered a previously uncharted ...

The area under study in the expedition includes the Mid-Atlantic Ridge – a site of frequent earthquakes – stretching over 16,000km from north to south.

An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to deep-sea ...

At the slow-spreading mid-Atlantic ridge in the South Atlantic Ocean an iron cloud spreads for more than 1,000 kilometers across the Atlantic from west of Namibia, Africa, to northeast of Rio de ...

Microbial Iron Mats at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Evidence that Zetaproteobacteria May Be Restricted to Iron-Oxidizing Marine Systems. PLOS ONE, 2015; 10 (3): e0119284 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone ...