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Unprecedented heat in the North Atlantic Ocean kickstarted Europe’s hellish 2023 summer. Now we know what caused it
Parts of the Atlantic Ocean are again much warmer than normal, priming Europe for more extreme heat this summer.
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Sea turtle Dilly Dally released into the ocean with three flippers after undergoing amputation
Dilly Dally, a loggerhead turtle who survived a run-in with a predator that ultimately cost her a flipper, has been ...
Scientists reveal what drove 2023's record-smashing North Atlantic marine heat wave
In a UNSW-led Nature study, researchers say that an off-the-scale marine heat wave in the North Atlantic Ocean in 2023 was ...
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Marine heat waves likely to ramp up as shallow ocean layers become trend
Oceanographers say that 2023's record-setting North Atlantic heat wave was driven by an atmospheric and oceanic heat exchange ...
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Atlantic ocean current system will weaken, but is unlikely to collapse
The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or AMOC, is a giant system of ocean currents that shuttles warm surface ...
Atlantic seaweed blob breaks record — and it’s about to get even bigger
Blooms of of smelly, toxic seaweed shattered records in May, growing to over 37 million tons and inundating beaches. If it’s not bad enough already, the amount of seaweed is expected to grow ...
Sea turtle returned to ocean after front flipper amputed: Track her journey
An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally crawled into the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday morning, months after ...
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See what life is like in the world's most isolated settlement, which sits at the foot of an active volcano in the South Atlantic Ocean
That's because the government of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas — one of the British Overseas Territories on the island of Tristan da Cunha, which is in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean — ...
NHC keeping tabs on 2 systems, 1 in Atlantic and 1 in Pacific: See tracker
The National Hurricane Center said Tuesday, June 3 it is keeping an eye on two systems: one in the Atlantic and one in the ...