Tag Archives: Atlantic Ocean

Portuguese and Spanish authorities have seized 5.2 tons of cocaine from a sailboat on the high seas and arrested three suspects, in Portugal’s largest drug bust in 15 years and a world-record haul from a sailboat, police said on Monday. With the cocaine bales piled up behind him at a …

Human-driven climate change is threatening a critical current system that plays a key role in transporting warmer and cooler waters throughout the Atlantic which could have dire impacts on world temperatures and critical ecosystems, a new scientific study has found. A new study suggests that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation …

Scientists have discovered a sea sponge more than a mile under the surface of the Atlantic that bears a remarkable resemblance to children’s cartoon character Spongebob Squarepants, NPR reports. Next to the yellow sponge sat a pink starfish that could be mistaken for Spongebob’s friend Patrick, commenters on social media …

The storm already ripped off roofs, destroyed crops, and downed trees and power lines in the eastern Caribbean on Friday. Hurricane Elsa is racing towards Haiti and the Dominican Republic, threatening to unleash flooding and landslides before taking aim at Cuba and Florida. The Category 1 storm was located about …

“As we work to end the pandemic and build back better, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity – and responsibility – to correct our relationship with the natural world, including the world’s seas and oceans”, Secretary-General António Guterres upheld in his message for the day. We not only rely on the …

South Korean Foreign Ministry announced that it was aboard a cargo ship capsized off the coast of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean 4 Korean citizens. Four sailors were closed in the engine room of the ship, which belongs to one of the country’s largest logistics companies, Hyundai Glovis …

Hurricane Dorian appears to have caused “unprecedented” devastation in the Bahamas, the country’s leader says. The category five storm, the second-strongest Atlantic hurricane on record, remains “extremely dangerous”, said Prime Minister Hubert Minnis. Some 13,000 houses are feared damaged or destroyed, according to the International Red Cross. Pictures showed surging …

An army of microbes is munching through the Titanic wreck, a rare dive has revealed. The famous ship has deteriorated since it was last visited, and will soon disappear entirely as it’s subsumed into the Atlantic Ocean. Deep ocean explorers recently visited the famous ship’s wreck, the first crewed dive …