Researchers are using a 3D map of the ocean to get a detailed understanding of life beneath the surface, a breakthrough that could help preserve the fragile ecosystems that basically keep the entire ...

Scientists are mapping the entire ocean floor as part of an ambitious project that could finally find the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. They will use state-of-the-art technology to explore ...

The post Inside the Ocean’s Nerve Center: How 100 Species Collide on a Single Map appeared first on A-Z Animals. Migration patterns are diverse. Green turtles tend to stay within a single ocean basin ...

Miles beneath the sea is a landscape of seamounts, hills and ridges, much of it unexplored or hidden under layers of muck. A team of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla ...

Maps are drawn to tell us about the ways in which mankind has shaped the landscape by building things like roads, canals and cities. Those maps often leave the world's oceans all but blank. But now a ...

Did you know that 85% of the ocean floor is uncharted? Anthony Everett ships out with the University of New Hampshire students and researchers who are hoping to map it all by 2030.

Using satellite data, a new topographic map of the ocean's floor created by scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography outlines areas of the ocean we have never seen before. This new map ...

An international team of researchers has published the most detailed submarine map of the Artic Ocean. The study, which counts on the participation of the experts Miquel Canals, José Luis Casamor and ...

Imagine, for a moment, what it would mean for this economy if we didn’t have maps: Transportation, trade, resource extraction, disaster mitigation — so much of what we do would be made more ...

A scuba diver swims in the coral reefs of Palau. Beneath the depths that humans can dive, natural wonder and a better understanding of our planet awaits. Carlos Villoch / Alamy Earth has no shortage ...

Oceanographers are carving up the world’s seas like the last of the holiday turkey. A new 3D map sorts global water masses—from deep, frigid circumpolar waters to the oxygen-starved Black Sea—into 37 ...

We've explored such a small part of the ocean that we know more about the moon and Mars. This new three-dimensional map can help us get more acquainted with the body of water that occupies most of our ...