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News Articles: Atlantic Ocean

Family members survey their home destroyed by Hurricane Beryl, in Ottley Hall, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, on Tuesday. Beryl is the most powerful storm to form this early in the Atlantic hurricane season.

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  • Climate

Why climate change makes a hurricane like Beryl more dangerous

Record-shattering ocean temperatures have helped Beryl gain strength as it moves through the Caribbean. It is the most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever recorded this early in the year.

July 04, 2024
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By:
  • Michael Copley and
  • Rebecca Hersher
A group of Okalolies head toward a house belonging to one of their own in Edinburgh of the Seven Seas on Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic Ocean, on Dec. 31, 2023. New Year's Eve, or Old Year's Night as it's known on the island, is a chance for the whole community to come together.

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  • World

The Okalolies of Old Year's Night: Celebrating tradition on the world's most remote inhabited island

"Okalolies" ring in the new year on the world's most remote inhabited island by visiting the population of not quite 250 in masks and making mischief, an annual chance for the community to come together.

May 26, 2024
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By:
  • Nick Schönfeld and
  • Julia Gunther
After a relatively quiet start to the Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center was monitoring multiple storm systems in the Atlantic on Sunday.

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  • Weather

Tropical Storm Emily takes shape in the Atlantic, as storm activity starts to warm up

As the season is nearing its peak, the Atlantic Ocean has suddenly become very active with several storms that meteorologists and weather forecasters are watching.

August 20, 2023
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
As the planet heats up, Greenland's ice sheet is pouring more meltwater into the Atlantic. Scientists are tracking whether this could cause a collapse in a crucial ocean current.

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  • Climate

Why it's so important to figure out when a vital Atlantic Ocean current might collapse

Scientists know a current in the Atlantic Ocean could collapse suddenly as the climate changes. The question of when matters to billions of people around the globe.

July 28, 2023
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
The sun rises above the Atlantic Ocean as waves crash near beachgoers walking along a jetty. Ocean temperatures averaged five degrees warmer around South Florida beginning in July.

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  • Climate

As seas get hotter, South Florida gets slammed by an ocean heat wave

A dramatic increase in ocean temperatures around South Florida in early July caught scientists off-guard. They're now rushing to help struggling coral on the only inshore reef in the continental U.S.

July 19, 2023
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  • Jenny Staletovich
A right whale with scars

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  • News

Georgia GOP congressman swims against environmental tide opposing right whale protection proposal

Republican U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter of Pooler joined Senate counterparts in taking a preemptive legislative strike this month to a rule that the marine associations claim will be financially detrimental and further hinder a vessel’s ability to navigate heavily trafficked shipping ports in Savannah and Brunswick.

June 29, 2023
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Paul-Henry (PH) Nargeolet

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  • News

Georgia-based CEO 'devastated' over loss of colleague aboard the Titan sub

One of the people aboard the submersible touring the wreckage of the Titanic has ties to Georgia.

June 22, 2023
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By:
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • Orlando Montoya ,
  • and 1 more
Bruce Hickey, 70, one week after Hurricane Ian tore through his community in Fort Myers Beach, Fla. There were relatively few storms in the Atlantic over the summer, but the 2022 hurricane season was nonetheless one of the most destructive on record.

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  • Climate

The 2022 hurricane season shows why climate change is so dangerous

This year's hurricane season got off to a very slow start. But it only takes one big storm to wreak havoc. And climate change makes such storms more likely.

December 28, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher
A satellite image from September 2017 shows Hurricane Irma, left, and Hurricane Jose, right, in the Atlantic Ocean. NOAA says the average annual number of tropical storms in the Atlantic has slightly increased.

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  • Science

Expect More Tropical Storms, NOAA Warns

NOAA is updating its definition of what a "normal" Atlantic hurricane season looks like, based on the last 30 years. The average number of hurricanes in the new normal has risen from 6 to 7.

April 09, 2021
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By:
  • Rebecca Hersher

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