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 ...

More precise maps created using data from the SWOT mission can enhance underwater navigation and provide deeper insights into ...

To map the whole ocean floor by the end of this decade ... mapping is done using light instead of sonar up to a depth of 30 ...

The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBSCO ... 23% of these cells now have at least one modern depth measurement. The map was drawn by compiling measurements taken by ...

A new effort to map the ocean floor funded by the Office of Naval Research uses the magic of mathematics and the power of ...

A new study has used 30 years of data to find areas with the highest potential for generating energy from ocean currents ...

Ocean depth is divided into zones: littoral, bathyal, abyssal and hadal. The deepest part of the ocean, the hadal zone, is anywhere deeper than six kilometres. What is the average depth of the ocean?

Sludge carpeted the water's edge. Waves during high tide lapped onto charred homes, pulling debris and potentially toxic ash into the ocean as they receded. “It was just heartbreaking,” said ...

Sludge carpeted the water's edge. Waves during high tide lapped onto charred homes, pulling debris and potentially toxic ash into the ocean as they receded. “It was just heartbreaking,” said Quinn, ...