During part one of exercise Steadfast Defender, NATO navies are training to ensure that sea lines of communication in the Atlantic stay open in a war.

The tectonic plates under the Americas, Europe, and Africa are being pushed apart as the Atlantic Ocean widens year by year. New research reveals what’s pushing the plates apart: Material from deep within the Earth is bursting upward at an undersea ridge in the middle of the Atlantic. Visit Business […]

As Navy warships practiced hunting submarines in the Atlantic this month, NATO cut the ribbon at its new US-based joint command. Both events point to a major focus for the US and its NATO allies: countering increasingly active and increasingly potent Russian submarines. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. […]

A shocking satellite image shows five tropical cyclones churning in the Atlantic basin, which includes the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico. The cyclones tie yet another record in an extremely active hurricane season. The image also captures smoke swirling across the US from historic wildfires in […]

A group of 25 Dutch teenagers arrived home in the Netherlands on Sunday after a five-week trans-Atlantic voyage. The high-schoolers were on an educational cruise in the Caribbean, but border and port closures in mid-March made it impossible for them to fly home from Cuba as planned. So the students, […]

This month, the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and its strike group cleared a path through the Atlantic for a group of cargo ships led by the cruiser USS Vella Gulf. It’s the first time since 1986 that the Navy has done this kind of convoy, an operation that […]

The US Navy has kept a close eye on ever-more active Russian submarines, which are ranging across the Atlantic. That activity has made the Atlantic into a contested space, and the Navy, led by the 2nd Fleet, is relearning how to keep them in sight, according to that fleet’s commander. […]

Greta Thunberg is setting sail back across the Atlantic with an impromptu motley crew: two YouTuber Australians, their 11-month-old son, and a professional sailor. The Australian couple answered Thunberg’s call for help getting back to Europe after the year’s most important UN climate-change summit, COP25, was moved from Chile to […]

Russia and its neighbours in NATO have been at odds since Moscow seized Crimea and intervened in Ukraine in 2014. Much of that tension has played out the ground in Europe, but NATO is also responding to what it sees as antagonistic behaviour by Russia in the waterways around the […]

Hurricane Dorian, currently a major Category 3 storm, is expected to make landfall in Florida on Monday as a Category 4 hurricane. The hurricane hasn’t quite followed the path that scientists initially anticipated. A pocket of high atmospheric pressure is causing it to veer left. The direction of the storm […]

A nearly 10-foot-long, 533-pound shark was tracked to the Long Island Sound on Monday by Ocearch, a research organisation that electronically tracks ocean life for scientists. The shark is the first to be tracked to the Long Island Sound by Ocearch. The shark was first tagged last fall off Nova […]

The US Navy reactivated its 2nd Fleet in July 2018 to operate in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. The fleet was stood up to confront Russia, whose forces have increasingly confronted Western militaries since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. In the six months since its activation, the Navy’s […]

This extremely ugly fish is in danger. The population of Atlantic wolffish has dwindled dramatically, and it’s going to be hard to recover. Despite their unattractive visage, wolffish are remarkable creatures and have an important role in their ecosystem. They’re particularly threatened by bottom-trawling vessels that unintentionally scoop them up […]

Iran has decided to send warships into the Atlantic Ocean. Iranian Rear Admiral Touraj Hassani made the announcement Friday, telling state media that Iran’s new stealth destroyer – the Sahand – would be among the deployed warships. Iran has repeatedly bristled at the presence of American aircraft carriers in the […]

Nearly 110 years after the Titanic sank to the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, an Australian shipping company plans to inaugurate Titanic II on a trip across the Atlantic Ocean in 2022 via the same route the original Titanic took. USA Today reports Blue Star Line Chairman Clive Palmer has […]

Hurricane Florence is predicted to slam into the US East Coast as a “major” storm. Two other hurricanes – Isaac and Helene – have also formed in the Atlantic Ocean. Astronauts in space aboard the International Space Station recently flew over all three hurricanes and photographed two of them. A […]

Hurricane Florence is predicted to slam into the US East Coast as a “major” storm. Two other hurricanes – Isaac and Helene – have also formed in the Atlantic Ocean. Astronauts in space aboard the International Space Station recently flew over all three hurricanes and photographed two of them. A […]