In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...

Plans to map the entire ocean floor by 2030 are going ahead despite the challenges of the coronavirus crisis, officials leading the project said, with almost a fifth covered so far. Scientists say ...

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The seafloor captures most of the planet’s carbon dioxide ... By surveying the same areas regularly, researchers can identify ...

An international team of scientists is reconstructing the impact of the 2008 Chaitén volcanic eruption on the marine ...

Off the coast of Chile and Peru, along the entire western length of South America, the seafloor takes a sharp, steep plunge deep into the Pacific Ocean. Known as the Chile margin, the region is ...

The discovery came as scientists from different organizations were aboard the Healy, one of two polar-class Coast Guard ...

Spain is sending a marine research vessel to scan the seafloor off Valencia's coast in hopes of finding vehicles and people ...

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Scientists probing the bottom of the Pacific Ocean made a surprising discovery: animals living underneath the seafloor in an area with volcanic activity. Giant tubeworms, which are known as the ...