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A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
They showed the vast underwater landscapes of the Atlantic Ocean, complete with the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and its central rift.
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Enormous Waves Discovered Beneath the Atlantic: A 117-Million-Year-Old Secret Rewrites Our Vision of Climate
Deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, scientists have uncovered enormous fossilized ...
They dumped 200,000 radioactive barrels in the middle of the ocean: 80 years later, France leads the mission to recover them
An international effort aims to assess the environmental impact of nuclear waste dumped in the ocean over half a century ago.
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Underwater earthquake detected south of Cape Town
An underwater earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale was recorded at 7:36am today along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, ...
Giant Waves Reveal How the Atlantic Was Born
The Atlantic Ocean may have formed millions of years earlier than previously thought, igniting a period of climate change, scientists found.
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A tectonic plate may have peeled apart—and that could shrink the Atlantic Ocean
For years, João Duarte has puzzled over a seemingly boring underwater expanse off the ... touching the Atlantic Ocean. Here, plates instead pull apart down the ocean's middle and form new crust ...
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See the world's largest iceberg stranded in the South Atlantic (satellite photo)
The drifting Antarctic iceberg A-23A came to a sudden stop in late February off the coast of South Georgia Island — a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic Ocean and the largest of nine ...
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The World’s Tallest Waterfall Is Underwater and Crucial to the Atlantic Ocean
The Denmark Strait Cataract An underwater waterfall seems counterintuitive ... Cooler waters from the Nordic Seas flow through the Denmark Strait and out towards the Atlantic Ocean. Before reaching ...