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When will a vital system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean collapse? Depends on whom you ask.
Just below Greenland is a menacing stretch of water known as the Cold Blob. As the planet heats up, the Cold Blob remains a spooky outlier — positioned right above the area where the Atlantic Ocean’s ...
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The Atlantic Ocean is getting wider every year. Researchers have finally figured out why.
A 2021 study published in the journal Nature suggested the key to the Atlantic's expansion lies beneath a large underwater mountain range in the middle of the ocean. The set of mostly undersea ...
ZME Science on MSN7mon
A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to publish it
Marie Tharp’s maps of the Atlantic Ocean floor did more than just reveal an underwater mountain range—they transformed the ...
Earth.com10d
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 ...
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Largest marine protected area in Atlantic Ocean will soon be official
The nearly 170,000 square miles of ocean around Ascension ... foot underwater volcano in the mid-Atlantic ridge, one of the world’s longest mountain ranges. On August 24, the Ascension Island ...
BBC10mon
What are mountains?
Instead of forcing the ground up, the two plates in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean are actually moving apart in opposite directions. The Andes are the world's longest mountain range. This causes ...
Green Matters on MSN3mon
Scientists Discover a 'Lost City' Deep in the Atlantic Ocean — Unlike Anything We've Ever Seen Before
At the turn of the millennium, researchers uncovered a site near the summit of an underwater mountain range in the ...
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‘They look almost human made.’ NOAA finds weird lines of holes in Mid-Atlantic floor
Photos show the holes interrupted what is otherwise a solid, flat sandy surface on the Atlantic seafloor. NOAA Ocean Exploration photos Scientists exploring a submerged mountain range in the Mid ...