People need to know that the oceans are in terrible crisis— waters too hot, acidic, ecosystems greatly damaged, and more. But ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tharp with an undersea map at her desk. Rolled sonar profiles of the ocean floor are on the shelf behind her. Lamont-Doherty Earth ...

TOKYO, Japan, January 15, 2022 (ENS) – Much has changed since the early days of oceanic bathymetry, the study of the seafloor, when simple soundings were taken by hand with a rope and weight. Today, ...

"I think we got something." Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) came across a historic discovery while mapping the ocean floor recently -- an oil tanker that ...

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 ...

The Saildrone Surveyor, the world’s largest uncrewed ocean mapping vehicle, has mapped more than 45,000 square kilometers (17,375 square miles) of previously unexplored ocean floor during a ...

In shallow coastal waters around the world, mud and other fine-grained sediments such as clay and silt form critical blue carbon sinks. Offshore infrastructure such as wind turbines and oil platforms, ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC) in The Hague is working hard to bring increased value to the offshore renewable energy sector with new ...

Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little about the ocean’s deepest reaches. And there are good reasons to learn ...