- Which division is tougher, the Atlantic or the Pacific? Both have all five teams at least in the play-in. https://www.lines.com/guides/what-are-the-6-nba-divisions/1572 29 comments nba
- The Atlantic Ocean Hasn't Been This Hot in at Least 2,900 Years https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-atlantic-ocean-hasnt-been-this-hot-in-at-least-2-90-1845348711?utm_campaign=hot%20news&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=97377248&_hsenc=p2anqtz-_pny1lr4w-swgqts0enezre5p4n2uowjuikvcnj5o9yd0ci5s3vszsb5a7mlmail9pdalszui26ixvhjdpjtetnnrvqq&utm_content=97377248&utm_source=hs_email 46 comments science
- "By my calculations, at least 10 times as many girls are now trafficked into brothels annually as African slaves were transported to the New World in the peak years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade." http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/opinion/kristof-the-face-of-modern-slavery.html?_r=1&hp 820 comments worldnews
- Which Saltwater Fish Have Anglers Caught the Most (and Least) Along the Atlantic Coast Over the Past 5 Years? https://www.siyachts.com/most-caught-saltwater-fish 6 comments dataisbeautiful
- Atlantic Ocean circulation is the weakest in at least 1,600 years, study finds – here's what that means for the climate https://www.cbsnews.com/news/atlantic-ocean-gulf-stream-system-amoc-weakest-1600-years/ 11 comments science
- A North Atlantic shark species, the Greenland shark, is believed to be the longest-living vertebrate animal with a life span of at least 272 years - perhaps even over 500 years, according to a study. http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/08/12/greenland-shark-longest-living-vertebrate 3 comments worldnews
- The Tea Party Is Damaging Its Credibility in the Way It Can Least Afford - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-tea-party-is-damaging-its-credibility-in-the-way-it-can-least-afford/280500/ 5 comments politics
- Europe’s Summer Will Be ‘Unusually Hot’ — Again. Sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic have soared to their highest in at least 40 years, hinting that the coming summer will be “unusually hot,” https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/europe-s-summer-will-be-unusually-hot-again-1.2066857 8 comments environment
- At least 62 migrants travelling on a makeshift boat have drowned off the coast of Mauritania, in the worst loss of life this year along the increasingly travelled western Atlantic migration route to Europe. https://www.france24.com/en/20191205-dozens-migrants-die-boat-sinks-mauritania-coast-smugglers-canary-islands-west-africa?fbclid=iwar1ly1lknzqubioj31a3ns4qhiqvar-nwrhgtos5ikimjssjap2ex9vyvh4&ref=fb_i&utm_utm_medium=facebook 5 comments worldnews
- Pacific Division coach Darryl Sutter says all his players have asked to play at least a shift with John Scott. Same for Jagr in Atlantic. https://twitter.com/snchrissimpson/status/693890080222609409 305 comments hockey
- Former Navy pilot says flight crews observed UFOs off Atlantic Coast "every day for at least a couple years" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-05-14 29 comments worldnews
- Former Navy pilot says flight crews observed UFOs off Atlantic Coast "every day for at least a couple years" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-05-14/ 90 comments politics
- 60 Minutes Preview: Former Navy pilot says flight crews observed UFOs off Atlantic Coast "every day for at least a couple years" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-military-intelligence-60-minutes-2021-05-14/ 52 comments aliens
- Two college students are being sued for ONE MILLION DOLLARS by The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company because of a video they shot in an A&P grocery store. As of submission, it has been viewed less than 20,000 times but A&P claims they have lost at least a million $ as a result. http://www.fakelaugh.com/fakelaugh.html 66 comments reddit.com
- As Florida hurricane season starts, at least there’s no climate change. Federal meteorologists are forecasting an “extraordinary” hurricane season with the Atlantic Ocean already heating to typical August levels https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2024/05/31/florida-hurricane-season-climate-change-ron-desantis/ 3 comments environment
- From NYC to DC, the U.S. Atlantic coast is sinking, some cases ~ 5 millimeters per year. New maps show large areas of the East Coast sinking at least 2 mm per year. Multiple critical infrastructures (roads, railways, airports, levees) are affected by differing subsidence rates. https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/1/pgad426/7504900 4 comments science
- "However, one may as well argue that perhaps the most unique feature of the Spanish-speaking reception of Machiavelli’s work, at least when compared to what has been written for the English-speaking Atlantic world, was the importance given to his views as a theoretician of the modern state." https://jhiblog.org/2022/08/22/machiavelli-in-the-spanish-speaking-atlantic-world-1880-1940/ 2 comments philosophy
- An unusually strong anomaly is being detected in the Gulf Stream, not seen for at least 150 years at this level. Long-term data shows that it is most likely related to the slow collapse of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation, as more freshwater is flowing to the North Atlantic from Arctic ice melt https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/gulf-stream-amoc-ocean-anomaly-united-states-europe-fa/ 28 comments worldnews
- At least eight North Atlantic right whales have died this summer - about 2% of the endangered marine mammal's total population. All have been found in Canadian waters, and alarmed scientists are working to confirm the causes of the deaths. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/two-percent-of-the-worlds-right-whales-have-recently-died-pushing-the-species-closer-to-extinction/ 11 comments worldnews
- Canada implements further measures to protect the North Atlantic right whale, a critically endangered species, after six of the mammals died since June in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. At least three of these deaths have been tentatively blamed on their being hit by ships https://www.france24.com/en/20190709-canada-takes-new-steps-protect-endangered-right-whales 2 comments worldnews
- Scituate house – repeatedly rebuilt with taxpayer help – gets $180,000 more. A vacation home damaged at least 10 times by Atlantic storms will be elevated with money from a federal grant for the second time in a dozen years – this time for $180,000 - town records show. http://necir.org/2015/06/03/scituate-house-keeps-getting-money/ 8 comments politics