June 8 was UN World Oceans Day, and this year's theme is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us." One researcher who has spent ...

Only about 4% of the world's oceans remain undamaged by human activity, according to the first detailed global map of human impacts on the seas. A study in Science journal says climate change, fishing ...

The world's largest public map of Earth's oceans grows just a little bit more. Cloaked in ocean, the seafloor has resisted human exploration for centuries. Folklore and myths told of it as the ...

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday. The predawn launch aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

where deep ocean currents are pushing sediments around." But even locations with "high-resolution" data don't have much detail, especially when compared with the level of detail maps of the world ...

After several months of painstaking labor, Szucs finished sorting the world’s rivers according to their ocean drainage basins, and he has new maps to show for it. In his latest creations ...