The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, established off the coast of Massachusetts by former President Barack Obama in 2016, is the only such site in the Atlantic Ocean. It ...

NOAA Ocean Explorer: NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: INDEX 2012 "Gulf of Mexico" Here an octopus, basket star, bivalves, and dozens of cup coral all share the same overhang in the Norfolk Canyon ...

About 70 miles out in the Atlantic, a canyon begins. Down steep, craggy walls draped with corals it descends some 6,000 feet, a bridge between the continental shelf and the deep, deep ocean.

Hudson Canyon, an underwater gorge off the coast of New York and New Jersey, would receive permanent federal protection. By Lisa Friedman Hudson Canyon, a vast gorge in the Atlantic Ocean that is ...

Although just 100 miles off the New Jersey-New York coast, the features of the Hudson Canyon have been largely hidden beneath hundreds of feet of water. Now, for the first time, scientists have a ...

The study outlining the canyon areas served as a preliminary guide for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and its partnering agencies, which released a large-scale draft proposal targeting ...

In Norfolk canyon off the coast of Virginia, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington discovered the largest methane seep ever found in the Atlantic Ocean, and possibly all ...

The first national marine monument in the Atlantic is designed to permanently protect nearly 5,000 square miles of underwater canyons and mountains off the coast of New England.

A stretch of ocean off the coast of Cape Cod more than four times the size of Rhode Island has become the first U.S. marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean. President Barack Obama formally ...

Approximately 35 million years ago, a colossal asteroid collided with the Atlantic Ocean near the present-day East Coast of North America, creating a massive impact crater now buried beneath the ...

Whales are gathering in large numbers off New Jersey in a portion of the Atlantic Ocean called the New York Bight, according to several sources. Viking Yacht Company of New Gretna, Burlington ...