• This provides the vine with plenty of drainage, which is an important factor in a wet, northern climate influenced by the Atlantic Ocean.

    WSJ: Reflections on Champagne

  • General Description Bordered to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, this biosphere reserve is situated in the lower coastal plain in the Carolinian-South Atlantic region close to the city of Charleston.

    UNESCO: Biosphere Reserve Information

  • Two researchers (separated by the Atlantic ocean, rather than the English Channel), have used gravitational perturbations that affect comets, rather than planets, to predict the existence of something that might be a planet, or might be a star depending mainly on how you define a planet or a star.

    ECONOMIST: X marks the spot

  • The Mediterranean world sketched by Braudel and the world system across the Atlantic Ocean described by Wallerstein were nothing other than subsystems of the global system that encompassed Africa, the Mediterranean, the Islamic Middle East, India, China, and Southeast Asia.

    ECONOMIST: The once and future boom

  • They are believed to be 60 million to 80 million years old, made of sand pushed inland over the eons from the coast by Atlantic Ocean winds that sweep onshore 80 kilometers to the west.

    CNN: Romancing the dune in Namibia

  • By 1776, the Atlantic Ocean had become what one historian has called "an information highway" across which poured books, magazines, newspapers and copies of the debates in Parliament.

    WSJ: What Life Was Like in 1776

  • In fact, the sliver of a nation -- surrounded by Senegal and bordering the Atlantic Ocean -- had last executed a prisoner about 30 years ago.

    CNN: U.N. slams 'stream of executions' in Gambia

  • "We have made the fastest crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by a solar boat and the longest distance ever covered by a solar electric vehicle, " said Domjan.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Of the 15 states where rates increased by the largest percentages in that time, 14 border the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean, according to an analysis of National Association of Insurance Commissioners figures by The Associated Press.

    NPR: Coastal Homeowners Stagger Under Insurance Costs

  • Bermuda's penchant for ship swallowing can be largely explained by its position in the Atlantic Ocean.

    BBC: Wreck diving in Bermuda

  • The plane performed its weightless maneuvers over a chunk of airspace 100 miles long by 10 miles wide over the Atlantic Ocean.

    CNN: Teachers take weightless ride to inspire students

  • Song, Richards and colleagues studied waves generated by small earthquakes in the southern Atlantic Ocean that passed through the core to a seismograph in Alaska where they were measured.

    BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Earth's core runs ahead of crust

  • Being an island, Britain gets hammered by winds whipping in water from the Atlantic Ocean and dry, biting breezes from across Europe.

    FORBES: Rain Can't Stop Wimbledon, But Could Wash Out Olympics

  • In Brazil, the story is that we are happy to fund their drilling in the Atlantic Ocean but not willing to drill here (which is completely false, by the way).

    FORBES: USA vs the BRICs: Not Third World America Yet

  • Easily accessible by subway, the 7, 500-seat MCU Park overlooks the Atlantic Ocean and Coney Island amusement park.

    BBC: Baseball with a view in NYC

  • By the end of March 2008 thirty-five micro-projects led by youth for youth in the Caribbean, Pacific and AIMS (Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Sea) regions had been implemented.

    UNESCO: Youth Visioning - About YVIL

  • Previous research by Dr Baum's team has found that sharks are declining rapidly in parts of the Atlantic Ocean.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • The prospect of a bridge to Asia depends on the construction of three roads, each being built by Brazilian-led consortia, to connect Pacific and Atlantic Ocean ports.

    ECONOMIST: A president goes to market

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