With 5 million square kilometres added over the past year, alone 28.7% of the world's ocean floor has now been mapped.
The ocean has always looked like a blank blue expanse on most maps, yet beneath that surface lies a layered, living architecture that scientists are only now beginning to chart in detail. From the ...
June 8 was UN World Oceans Day, and this year's theme is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us." One researcher who has spent years exploring these wonders is Vicki Ferrini, a marine geophysicist and a ...
A newly released depth model of the Arctic Ocean seafloor has been published in Nature journal Scientific Data, marking a major milestone in polar bathymetry. The updated dataset, known as Version 4.0 ...