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‘Xenophobic’: Neighbours outraged over Mauritania’s mass migrant pushback
Governments of Senegal and Mali are angry at how their nationals are being treated in the northwest African nation.
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At least 89 people dead after migrant boat sinks off Mauritania’s coast
At least 89 migrants died when their boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania on Monday ... The boat capsized off the coast, in the Atlantic Ocean, about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the ...
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Atlantic Africa Presses for Action at UN Ocean Summit in Nice
The UN's third ocean conference will be held in Nice this June, co-hosted by France and Costa Rica, with discussions on overfishing, pollution, and blue economy financing. Atlantic African nations ...
Ancient 300-foot-tall mud waves gave rise to Atlantic Ocean
According to geologists at the UK’s Heriot Watt University, gigantic waves of mud and sand sediment about 250 miles off the ...
Live Science on MSN8d
Gigantic 'mud waves' buried deep beneath the ocean floor reveal dramatic formation of Atlantic when Africa and South America finally split
Enormous "mud waves" buried under the Atlantic seabed formed 117 million years ago as the Atlantic Ocean opened up.
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Atlantic Ocean: AMOC to collapse by mid-century?
According to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a major ocean current system that transports warm water from the ...
117 million-year-old mud waves reveal the birth of the Atlantic Ocean
Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off ...