Photograph by David Doubilet The Sargasso Sea, part of the vast whirlpool known as the North Atlantic gyre, often has been described as an oceanic desert—and it would appear to be, if it weren ...
Sir John Ross lowers a line more than a mile into the North Atlantic and hauls up worms ... discovers that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge conceals a long rift valley, which turns out to be part of a ...
If recent reports of a North Atlantic right whale calf and its mother spotted in a busy shipping lane between New Jersey and New York are any indication that more are to come, an artificial ...