There are a number of startups racing to map the ocean in greater detail, but the latest to snag fresh funding is Bedrock ...

If we save the sea, we save our world.” Sir David Attenborough’s words, echoed by the Prince of Wales at the Blue Economy and ...

The study, which was based on measurements from ice cores and data models, found that the acidity of the ocean was worse in ...

June 8 was UN World Oceans Day, and this year's theme is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us." One researcher who has spent ...

Each stretch of seaside tells a unique story, from the Panhandle’s creamy white sand and old Florida towns, to the Atlantic’s ...

In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep ocean floor - an area about the size of ...

A new review of ocean data suggests that more than 99.999 percent of the global deep seafloor has never been seen by humans. But what does that really mean?

According to an article published by the Farmingdale Observer, the team has released the most detailed map to date of the ocean floor, using data from the SWOT satellite (Surface Water and Ocean ...

Ships using sonar can also map abyssal hills, but it’s a slow and difficult task. To date, ships have only mapped about a quarter of the planet’s ocean floor. SWOT was designed to do much more ...

Its goal? To map the whole ocean floor by the end of this decade. This goal is extremely ambitious. There are technical challenges, financial challenges, and political challenges. Five years to ...

After I first read about Tharp and had looked at images of her maps from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s, I turned to Google Earth for a modern glimpse of the ocean floor. I was disappointed; the oceans ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. A new satellite has mapped ...