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In 1964, Florida began building a canal across the state. The $110 million project failed but created an unexpected legacy

Across central Florida, long stretches of forest, quiet waterways and walking trails follow a route that was never supposed to look this way. Beneath the trees lie the remains of one of the state's most ambitious engineering schemes, a canal that was intended to cut directly across the peninsula and…

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In 2008, a Brazilian priest rose into the sky beneath 1,000 balloons to raise money for charity, but the wind carried him into an Atlantic mystery

In April 2008, Father Adelir Antônio de Carli set out on a fundraising mission unlike anything most people had ever seen. The Brazilian Catholic priest climbed into a simple chair attached to around 1,000 helium-filled party balloons, hoping to attract attention and raise money for a spiritual rest centre for…

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Benny Blanco reveals why he’s ‘sailing across the Atlantic’ for Selena Gomez

Benny Blanco says he is travelling across the Atlantic Ocean by boat to meet Selena Gomez due to his fear of flying.

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Sable Island is a remote sand island with no permanent residents, yet hundreds of wild horses roam freely across its shifting dunes

More than 300 kilometres off the coast of Nova Scotia lies one of Canada's most extraordinary natural landscapes. Sable Island, a narrow crescent of shifting sand in the Atlantic Ocean, is unlike any other place in North America. Despite its harsh weather, moving sand dunes and complete isolation, the island…

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Every year, about 27.7 million tons of Saharan dust cross the Atlantic Ocean and settle on the Amazon rainforest, delivering phosphorus close to the amount the rainforest loses to runoff, meaning the world’s largest rainforest is partly fertilised by dust from the planet’s largest hot desert thousands of miles away

Mineral-rich dust travels from the Sahara Desert to the Amazon rainforest. This airborne dust delivers vital phosphorus nutrients annually to the forest. The Sahara dust compensates for nutrients lost through rainfall and river runoff. This natural nutrient exchange has sustained the Amazon for thousands of years. The desert and rainforest…

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Benny Blanco travels to UK by BOAT for girlfriend Selena Gomez's birthday due to huge fear

Record producer Benny Blanco is heading to the UK to be with his girlfriend Selena Gomez on her birthday, but he is travelling across the Atlantic Ocean by boat due to a fear of flying.

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5 Underrated Netflix Thrillers You Must Watch This Weekend

Some of all excellent TV shows don’t get all the promotion they require. Some of the best thrillers created by Netflix went unnoticed, lost in some other bigger releases and were not included in must-see lists, even though these shows are truly amazing. These shows are not just average programs…

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Scotland's Fingal's Cave is a 60-million-year-old volcanic wonder where Atlantic Ocean creates haunting natural music

Rising from the Atlantic Ocean on the remote Scottish island of Staffa, Fingal's Cave is one of the world's most extraordinary natural landmarks. Carved into towering hexagonal basalt columns formed by ancient volcanic eruptions around 60 million years ago, the cave is celebrated not only for its striking appearance but…

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What’s behind the giant brown ribbon stretching thousands of miles across the Atlantic ocean?

A giant brown ribbon stretching thousands of miles across the Atlantic is revealing how closely Earth's oceans, climate, and ecosystems are connected. As the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt reaches record levels, scientists are uncovering surprising clues about warming seas, nutrient pollution, and the changing balance of life in the Atlantic…

The Economic Times

Atlantic Sailor Was Told Not to Open Container 47. But Then, He Heard Breathing: ‘Open’

There are things that lurk beneath the surface that humans were never supposed to know about. A man named Eric, a sailor in the Atlantic Ocean, told a story about Container 47. Mikey Grimm (@mikeygrimm13) on TikTok shared Eric’s tale—perhaps whatever was inside that container shouldn’t have ever been dug…

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Timmy, Germany’s humpback whale, likely lived for only five days after controversial rescue effort

The whale, nicknamed ’Hope’ by German media, was found dead on May 14

The Independent UK

France arrests Russian captain of Moscow-linked oil tanker

The captain of the Tagor, a tanker suspected of belonging to Russia’s “ghost fleet” that was boarded in the Atlantic Ocean by the French Navy, was taken into custody on Tuesday, announced Brest prosecutor Stéphane Kellenberger.

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Ebola, hantavirus… how eroding global health cooperation could threaten worse crises ahead

The recent Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks, respectively in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, and on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, remind us that the next health crisis is never far away. They also illustrate the World Health Organization’s key role in global coordination and the importance…

The Conversation

Who were the American mothers to France’s orphaned children during the First World War?

During the entire course of World War I, approximately 25,000 American women crossed the Atlantic Ocean to attend to the needs of wounded soldiers and civilian communities in Europe. Women traditionally operated in medical units and helped care for wounded soldiers. Following US entry in the conflict, the newly established…

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The Mary Sue

Rescuers found them clinging to a life raft after a plane went down off Florida and what the pilot did next saved everyone

Rescuers pulled 11 survivors from the Atlantic Ocean after their plane went down off Florida’s coast, and the pilot’s quick thinking in those final moments made sure everyone made it out alive. The small Beechcraft twin-propeller aircraft ditched about 80 miles east of Melbourne, Florida, leaving passengers and crew stranded…

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Two Indians aboard cruise ship hit by deadly Hantavirus outbreak

Two Indians were among 149 people aboard a luxury expedition cruise ship stranded in the Atlantic Ocean after a deadly hantavirus outbreak left three passengers dead and eight others infected or suspected to be infected, according to BBC.

The Independent UK

How a deadly hantavirus outbreak unfolded on a cruise ship for weeks before it was identified

A deadly outbreak of the rare hantavirus unfolded over the course of weeks on a cruise ship that sailed from Argentina toward Antarctica and then across the Atlantic Ocean as passengers and crew members fell sick

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‘We want to go home’: US travel blogger breaks down as hantavirus outbreak kills 3 on Atlantic cruise ship

An American travel blogger has described panic and uncertainty aboard a luxury cruise ship struck by a suspected hantavirus outbreak in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cape Verde, which has killed three passengers and left dozens stranded at sea.

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Hantavirus infects at least 2 on cruise ship, while 5 others fall ill: Here's what we know

Three people have died and four more have fallen ill on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, and hantaviruses are confirmed to be the culprit in two cases so far.

Latin Times

Three People Death in A Cruise Ship That Departed from Argentina Towards South Arica After an Outbreak of the Deadly Hanta Virus

Three people have died and at least three others have fallen ill after a suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard a Dutch-operated cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, prompting an international public health investigation and urgent medical evacuation efforts, the World Health Organization said.

The Independent UK

What is hantavirus? Symptoms and how it is different from Covid

The sickness starts with symptoms including a fever and chills and can quickly become life-threatening

The Independent UK

A suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean kills 3 people, WHO says

The World Health Organization says that a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean has killed three people and sickened at least three others

The Independent UK

Three dead and British tourist in intensive care after hantavirus outbreak on polar expedition ship

A 69-year-old British national remains in intensive care in South Africa

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Timmy, the whale stranded off Germany's coast, swims off and gets stuck...again

The plan was to lift the whale from the seabed using inflatable cushions and transport it with pontoons back to the North Sea or possibly as far as the Atlantic Ocean.

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Sørvágsvatn: The lake that 'floats' above the ocean thanks to a unique optical illusion

Sørvágsvatn, also called Leitisvatn, is the largest lake in the Faroe Islands. Viewed from a certain angle, one side appears to hover above the Atlantic Ocean.

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