Massive, migrating dust clouds originating in the Sahara Desert are crucial to fostering life in the Atlantic Ocean as far away as the Amazonian basin, according to new evidence from an international team of researchers. This source of biodiversity, however, becomes particularly useful after traveling thousands of miles in the atmosphere.

Iron is a micronutrient indispensable for life, enabling processes such as respiration, photosynthesis, and DNA synthesis. Iron availability is often a limiting resource in today's oceans, which means that increasing the flow of iron into them can increase the amount of carbon fixed by phytoplankton,

The unoccupied house in northern Rodanthe tumbled into the water in the early morning hours, damaging the house next door with debris, the National Park Service said.

Another house collapsed on the Outer Banks, prompting a call for people to avoid part of the North Carolina coast. Cape Hatteras National Seashore said the unoccupied oceanfront home fell early Sept.

Otis, a juvenile green sea turtle was released back into the Atlantic Ocean after six months of care at The Florida Aquarium's Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Center in Apollo Beach.

The aquarium said that warming waters have led to an increase of sea turtles in its coverage area in recent years. “We have had a record high number of sea turtles so far this y