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 ...

Science | January 10, 2024. These Entrancing Maps Capture Where the World’s Rivers Go. Cartographer Robert Szucs uses satellite data to make stunning art that shows which oceans waterways empty into ...

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday. The predawn launch aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

Only about 4% of the world's oceans remain undamaged by human activity, according to the first detailed global map of human impacts on the seas. A study in Science journal says climate change, fishing ...

See the Launch of a New NASA Satellite to Map the World's Oceans, Lakes and Rivers Nicknamed SWOT — short for Surface Water and Ocean Topography — the satellite is needed more than ever as ...

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday. The predawn launch aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...