Advances in technology are helping explorers fulfill their purpose: Mapping the ocean floor in tiny detail for the first time.

Learn more about this seafloor mapping initiative and how having a clear understanding of seafloors can help in ecological ...

Ecological zones across the entire Southern Ocean have been defined for the first time in an effort to provide a scientific foundation for improving fisheries management and tackling the leading ...

The quest to compile the definitive map of Earth's ocean floor has edged a little nearer to completion. Modern measurements of the depth and shape of the seabed now encompass 20.6% of the total ...

A proverb says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This is borne out in science, where a ...

Nasa-style mission needed to map ocean floor Iceberg 'doodles' trace climate history 'Thousands' of new ocean mountains A new wave of robots is needed to map the ocean floor "The global scientific ...

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.

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

The structure of the ocean floor is extremely vast and irregular. In 1948, when Marie Tharp started working at the Lamont ...

The study combines these predictions with coral cover data from previous research, allowing scientists to map coral ...

The AMG catalog and metabolic pathway mapping provide a foundation for microbiome ... more accurate predictions about viruses ...