The Latest Breaking News from the North Atlantic

From Donald Trump handing the remote islands off Canada's coast the steepest tariffs in the world, to a French politician calling for foreign prisoners to be sent there, this French overseas territory has been topping international headlines.

A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean conveyor belt” is slowing down. That’s a problem because this vital system redistributes heat around the world, influencing both temperatures and rainfall.

The North Atlantic Ocean has been running a fever for months, with surface temperatures at or near record highs. But cooling along the equator in both the Atlantic and eastern Pacific may finally be starting to bring some relief, particularly for vulnerable coral reef ecosystems.

The North Atlantic hurricane season, which starts on June 1, is forecast to be "extraordinary," with up to seven storms of Category 3 or higher expected, the US NOAA weather agency said Thursday.

Explore the mysterious disappearance of the Titan submarine in the North Atlantic in June 2023 in the documentary Minute by Minute: The Titan Sub Disaster.

Killer whales, also called orcas, are known for their intelligence and striking presence. They are also enduring a silent but persistent threat beneath the surface of our oceans.

New England is in the crosshairs of Hurricane Lee but is usually protected from the worst of a hurricane’s wrath by the cold waters of the North Atlantic

In late July, a study published in Nature Communications warned that a critical ocean system that brings warm water up the North Atlantic, also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), was at risk of collapse by 2095 for want of drastic emissions cuts. While AMOC was already known…

This major system, which transport heat from the tropics to the north Atlantic, are now at high risk of collapse due to human-induced climate change.