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 ...

Deep-sea researchers have launched a groundbreaking project to investigate "dark oxygen"—a form of oxygen produced in total darkness on the ocean floor. The initiative follows last year's ...

This map and an internal magnetic ‘compass’ rely on distinct mechanisms, implying that turtles have two magnetic senses. We developed a magnetic-coil system that could replicate the magnetic ...

There seems to be too much of a radioactive element in rocks deep in the Pacific Ocean – how did it get there 10 million years ago?

But for two earthquake researchers, they found whale vocalization reflections could assist in measuring ocean crust structure. Their findings appear today (February 12) in Science. “It’s a nice ...

Deep under the sea, pipelines and cables carrying fuel, power and communications are strewn on the ocean floor like a central nervous system for the global economy. Huge stretches of these ...

For example, it’s expected that a global effort to map the entire ocean floor ... scientists around the world. The ocean is becoming more acidic and its oxygen levels are declining, largely ...

The Atlantic is the second largest ocean on the planet ... but is actually a boundary which separates oxygenated water from oxygen-free water below it. This oxygen-free water has similar ...

They produce nearly half the planet’s oxygen too. Lose the oceans and we ... Rising temperatures are remaking the map of the oceans. As polar ice retreats, the Northwest Passage could become ...