It’s only happened twice since naming started in 1950, and there’s an unusual twist to where many of the storms formed this year.
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From June through October, it’s not unusual for huge Saharan dust plumes to blow across the Atlantic. They can darken skies but also bring calmer weather and electric sunsets. Here’s how they form.
A group of leading black, queer and feminist academics held a colloquium to reconsider a seminal blackness studies text – offering new ways of thinking about the decolonial project.
‘Building back better’ refers to making communities more disaster-proof and resilient after they take a hit. But instead, some US owners are building back bigger homes in vulnerable places.
The return of white sharks to Cape Cod, Massachusetts was a tourism success story – until a shark killed a swimmer. Can the Cape’s residents and visitors learn to share the ocean with these apex predators?
Since 2005, the Barents Sea has become too warm for sea ice to exist south of the Polar Front.
How we showed the Atlantic circulation system is its weakest for 1,600 years.
Sea snakes spend their lives in the water, giving birth to live young at sea, so why are they only found in some of the world’s oceans? The answer lies in a combination of climate and geography.
Trowels and spades are being put to use in the sea.
Very few Atlantic hurricanes travel northwards like this.
Histories of the North Atlantic have had a preponderant influence on scholarship about race. But, for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who study southern Africa, this is changing.
The Agulhas Current plays a critical role in global ocean circulation that influences climatic conditions across the world.
The rings of clam shells have revealed 1,000 year’s worth of marine climate history.
Laying the first telegraphy cable under the Atlantic was the Victorians’ version of the Apollo mission – it caught the imagination of a generation.
A UN committee has agreed with the science underpinning Falklands boundary claims, but without solving the sovereignty issue the dispute is no closer to a solution.
Changes in ocean temperatures are driving unusual weather patterns across Europe.
Africa has some wonderful beaches. A serious traveller should visit at least one of them once in a lifetime.
Corals are experiencing only the third global bleaching event in recorded history, caused by warming seas. But worse is yet to come.
Meet the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.
There seem to have been a dozen or so explanations for why the Earth’s surface has warmed at a slower rate over the past 15 years compared to earlier decades. This is perhaps not so surprising given the…
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Head of School of Earth & Ocean Sciences and Research Professor, Cardiff University
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