In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown ...

Tropical cyclones typically drop large amounts of rain along and near the storm's path. The slower and more significant the ...

A map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. NASA Earth Observatory map by Joshua Stevens, using data from Sandwell, D. et al. (2014). 2023-08-25T03:08:03Z ...

Images from NOAA and the University of South Florida shows the breadth of a sargassum seaweed belt that stretches from West Africa to the coast of Florida.

A dust plume from the Sahara Desert swirls over the Atlantic Ocean in this photo taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite on July 26, 2022.

Satellite images captured its brief swirl over the open Atlantic. Why It Matters Though short-lived, Andrea became the first named system of the Atlantic hurricane season when it formed on Tuesday.

Satellites in space are watching as Hurricane Ernesto races through the Atlantic Ocean not long after it made landfall in Bermuda on Saturday (Aug. 17), where it dumped seven to nine inches (18 to ...

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