Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown — an ...

Imagine, for a moment, what it would mean for this economy if we didn’t have maps: Transportation, trade, resource extraction, disaster mitigation — so much of what we do would be made more ...

Taken from the International Space Station by an astronaut, this is a view of Lake Van off Turkey, the largest soda lake on Earth. This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from ...

'We're entering an exciting new era of deep ocean mapping', Celine Gerson, Fugro's group director for the Americas and president of Fugro USA, said. Image by inusuke via iStock The U.S. National ...

An international team of researchers has published the most detailed submarine map of the Artic Ocean. The study, which counts on the participation of the experts Miquel Canals, José Luis Casamor and ...

You can listen to our podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify each week. Follow this link if you're listening on Apple News. This week, we chat with journalist Laura Trethewey, author of The Deepest Map ...

Scientists have mapped less than 25% of the world's seafloor. Experts say that getting that number up to 100% would improve everything from... Why mapping the entire seafloor is a daunting task, but ...

Despite decades of ocean exploration, humans still lack basic answers to one of the most fundamental ecological questions: where is marine life found, and why? A new study published in Communications ...