Atlantic

Hurricane season in the Atlantic is arriving ahead of schedule as the oceans warm, a new study finds. Big storms in the North Atlantic are forming earlier in the year than they used to, and forecasters say this means coastal communities need to be on the alert sooner, too. Tropical storms that reach a certain strength are named by the World Meteorological Organization. And the first named storms to develop each year have come about five days earlier each decade since 1979, according to the study published today in the…

Lupe Fiasco went into more detail about his relationship with his former label Atlantic Records.The conversation began when the Chicago rapper responded to a fan who tweeted that Fisco didn’t want to “conform” to a pop sound back when Lupe was signed.“Not accurate,” Fiasco responded. “I was comfortable making pop records. The issue was who controlled those records and what the ownership and splits were. Atlantic would only promote my records if they owned a large portion of them or if I signed a 360 deal. I gave Bruno…

Reliance Industries on Sunday announced US fund General Atlantic will invest Rs. 6,598 crores ($870 million) in Jio Platforms, a fourth deal that takes investment in its digital unit to over $8 billion in less than a month. General Atlantic will pick up a 1.34 percent stake in Jio Platforms which includes movie, music apps as wells telecoms venture Jio Infocomm. The deal puts Jio Platform's equity value at Rs. 4.91 lakh crores and gives it an enterprise value of Rs. 5.16 lakh crores, Reliance said in a statement.Reliance,…

The dried-up Sobradinho dam in Bahia state in December 2015. The finding comes from a study reported by scientists from Brazil, China, Australia and Germany in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The group used a novel methodology focusing on low rainfall and severe drought. Credit: Marcello Casal Jr./Agência Brasil The sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic Ocean can be a predictor up to three months in advance…

History of deep ocean temperature and atmospheric CO2 change. Previous estimates of temperature are shown with a red line, with new data in symbols. Credit: University of St Andrews A new study of ancient ocean temperatures, published today in Science, shows that the deep North Atlantic Ocean was once 20°C (68 °F)—warmer than the surface of the modern Mediterranean.…

Atlantic City casino workers reached a tentative deal with the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, averting a strike that could have started this Fourth of July weekend, according to the union.Unite Here Local 54 union organizers said their negotiating committee approved the deal on Saturday—details of which weren’t disclosed—and soon all unionized workers would be able to vote on it. The roughly 1,500 casino workers, who are seeking pay raises, were set to go on strike if an agreement hadn’t been reached by the July 3…

About 6,000 casino workers in Atlantic City, N.J., on Thursday were poised to strike over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, as a local union and casino operators continued negotiating for new contracts.Unite Here Local 54 organizers are seeking pay raises, saying that wages have fallen behind in recent years, and workers deserve raises now that casinos have bounced back from the pandemic. Workers at five of the city’s nine casinos voted to authorize the union’s negotiating committee to call strikes beginning Friday…

Atlantic City casino workers are voting Wednesday on whether to authorize a strike for increased wages, two weeks before the Fourth of July holiday weekend.Unite Here Local 54’s contracts with Atlantic City’s major casino-hotels—including MGM Resorts International’s MGM 2.24% Borgata and Caesars Entertainment Inc.’s CZR 5.08% Harrah’s and Caesars properties—expired on May 31. Organizers say workers’ wages have fallen…

Climate change is slowing down the conveyor belt of ocean currents that brings warm water from the tropics up to the North Atlantic.Our research, published today (June 6) in Nature Climate Change, looks at the profound consequences to global climate if this Atlantic conveyor collapses entirely.  We found the collapse of this system – called the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation – would shift the Earth's climate to a more La Niña-like state.This would mean more flooding rains over eastern Australia and worse…

Some 400 years after the original Mayflower sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, its unmanned robotic descendant has completed the first transatlantic crossing solely on its own decision-making.After seven years of planning and 40 days at sea, the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS400) finally pulled into Halifax, Nova Scotia, on June 5 after a 3,500-mile journey from Plymouth, U.K. Originally headed to Washington, D.C., the ship—which is propelled by a solar-driven hybrid electric motor and backup diesel generator, and guided…