The Atlantic Ocean has long been treated as a permanent fixture on world maps, a blue expanse separating North America from Europe and Africa. Yet a growing body of research suggests this basin is far ...

Along the Atlantic seaboard, more than 135 million Americans live in a zone where the ocean is no longer rising steadily but is poised to climb in abrupt, uneven surges as a key Atlantic current ...

As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rainforests, change irreversibly over human lifetimes. Melting ice sheets in ...

Understanding how the oceans behaved in the past — especially during extremely cold periods — is crucial for testing the models used to project future climate change. The peak of the last ice age, the ...