A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts near Bermuda in the slow swirl of the Sargasso Sea, part of the North Atlantic gyre. A weed mass this small may shelter thousands of ...
Clam shells could help scientists understand the Atlantic Ocean’s sensitive circulation system — and predict whether that ...
The North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre affects the weather of the North Atlantic and Europe, and also plays a part in the formation of hurricanes. The research has so far helped to better predict stormy ...
The endangered right whales' median age at death is about 22. Southern right whales, a closely related species, generally ...
That may be because the storm passed over the so–called "garbage patch" of the North Atlantic Gyre, said New Scientist, a "gyre" being a region where currents move in an inward, circular motion ...
The first North Atlantic right whale calf of the season has been spotted by a boater off South Carolina. Scientists are also ...
A new study, published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, has found the waters of the North Atlantic gyre contain greater quantities of plastic, such as polyethylene, polypropylene, acrylic ...