A new study gives alarming glimpse into the future, as some scientists warn these currents could be just decades from ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help ...

Learn more about ocean life in Sea of Hope: America’s Underwater Treasures ... sleek white bellies flashing in the gray North Atlantic. At the top of each lunge, they throw open tremendous ...

or even North America's Rockies. It's an underwater chain of mountains 47,000 miles long. The chain runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (surfacing at Iceland), around Africa, through the ...

Around our coasts the Atlantic Ocean is made up of four smaller areas of water: The North Sea, the Irish Sea ... Australasia, North America and South America. It contains just over half of ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of ...

which stretched over North America as far south as Pennsylvania, started to recede. Melting ice flooded into the oceans, and sea levels worldwide rose by an average of around 1 centimeter per year.

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by ... debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is it?

and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea. Adult leatherbacks also traverse as far north as Canada and Norway and as far south as New Zealand and South America. Leatherbacks undertake ...