The world's largest public map of Earth's oceans grows just a little bit more. Cloaked in ocean, the seafloor has resisted human exploration for centuries.

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 ...

An international, interdisciplinary team of scientists shared the first results of the 2009-2013 Tara Oceans expedition on 22 May 2015 in a special issue of Science. On the basis of a portion of the ...

British theologian Thomas Burnet created this world without water in 1694 to reveal the landscape of the entire Earth. The map, however, was more than speculative geology — it was presented as ...

The numbers are startling: According to even the most generous estimates, more than 80 percent of the world's oceans are totally unmapped. The average ocean depth is nearly two and a half miles ...

News Release 9-Aug-2015 Big data maps world's ocean floor Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Sydney image: This is a still shot of the world's first digital map of the seafloor's geology ...

Researchers have created high-resolution maps of points around the globe where groundwater meets the oceans -- the first such analysis of its kind, giving important data points to communities and ...

The first-ever comprehensive map of our planet's marine environment shows that human activity has heavily affected 41 percent of the world's ocean-covered area.

Researchers have published a new map highlighting the human impact on oceans worldwide. Their findings show oceans are in serious trouble, with declining fish stocks, disappearing coral reefs, and ...

Big data maps world's ocean floor Date: August 10, 2015 Source: University of Sydney Summary: The creation of the world's first digital map of the seafloor's geology is underway. It is the first ...