It is often said that humanity has explored outer space more extensively than the depths of the oceans—but a team funded by ...

SWOT satellite data has been used to map the seafloor, revealing 100,000 seamounts, more than double the number previously ...

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Scientists Create One of the Most Detailed Maps of the Ocean Floor, Find Close to 100,000 Submerged Mountains For decades, ...

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to date. The map, compiled using high-resolution data from the SWOT satellite, ...

Krill is considered to be the largest animal biomass in the wild on Earth and is an important prey species for baleen whales ...

These differences are shown in gravitational anomaly maps, which illustrate where gravity is stronger (red areas) or weaker (blue areas). Discovered in 1948 by Dutch geophysicist Felix Andries Vening ...

Fishing for Antarctic krill began in the Indian Ocean sector in the 1970s and it ... water characteristics have become apparent, and detailed, wide-area oceanographic observations have been ...

The air base the US may use if it decides to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities is a speck of an island in the Indian Ocean that few associate ... strategic chips on the map to remain a power ...

The researchers also achieved the first space-based measurement of the amplitude of an internal wave field near the Mascarene Plateau in the Indian Ocean (Fig. 1). Previous efforts using synthetic ...

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday released its long-range forecast for the Southwest Monsoon season (June ...