In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to date. The map, compiled using high-resolution data from the SWOT ...

The Blake Plateau, an astonishing deep-sea mountain range, features striking pillars of marine life alongside humanity’s propensity for industrial-level oceanic mining. This area in the Atlantic ...

Maps of the seafloor are constantly expanding, especially with the support of the Seabed 2030 initiative (which Ferrini is part of) that aims to have a complete map of the ocean's floor by 2030.

Even at those depths, the ocean floor teems with life. It’s slow-growing and often small but it is there – and some of it glows. "Life down there operates like it's on a different planet ...

Well, it turns out, for most of the planet’s surface — the ocean floor, that is — we don’t have very good maps. Researchers announced Friday that they’ve completed a map for just over ...

We know next to nothing about Earth’s seafloors.According to a study published May 7 in Science Advances, humans have only put eyes on 0.0001 percent of our planet’s waters deeper than the ...

Wolfel is the co-founder and CEO at Terradepth, a startup that is working to both map more of the ocean floor while also building a platform to make that data more accessible and easy to use.

Shape and depth of ocean floor profoundly influence how carbon is stored there New study finds seafloor topography accounts for up to 50% of the changes in depth at which carbon has been sequestered ...

Ocean floor a 'reservoir' of plastic pollution Date: April 4, 2024 Source: CSIRO Australia Summary: New science has taken a deep dive into plastic waste, providing the first estimate of how much ...

New research from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and the University of Toronto in Canada, estimates up to 11 million tonnes of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor. Every ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric cars and other electronics. But mining for them in the deep sea is a ...

Below the waters of the Cook Islands, population 15,000, lie minerals used to power electric cars. Extracting them could bring riches, but many say it’s a bad idea.