Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier
Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little ...
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A world without oceans. Map shows what it might look like
The disappearance of all the water from the oceans would have serious consequences ... efforts to protect our planet plays. Read also: A map of Zealandia was created. This is what the "lost ...
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Explore oceans
That great ocean out there is called the Atlantic. It stretches all the way from Europe and Africa, right across to the Americas, and it is up to eight kilometres deep in places! It’s one of the ...
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OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION
All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution ... Just how big is it? Using the map below, click and drag around the garbage patch (shown in red.) If you’re on mobile, ...
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After five years of work, new seafloor map of the Southern Ocean covering 48 million sq Km
The digital bathymetric model of IBCSO Version 2 has a 500m x 500m resolution based on a polar stereographic projection (EPSG: 9354) for the area south of 50°S. I A new map of the seafloor of the ...
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US lawmakers reintroduce MAPOceans Act to digitize federal fishing restrictions
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate have reintroduced the Modernizing Access to Our Public Oceans (MAPOceans) Act, legislation that ...