Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

June 8 was UN World Oceans Day, and this year's theme is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us." One researcher who has spent years exploring these wonders is Vicki Ferrini, a marine geophysicist and a ...

Maps created with tools like sonar can show the shape of the seafloor, but it's much harder to send cameras down beyond 200 meters, or more than 656 feet, where sunlight begins to fade rapidly and ...

The new U.N. report estimates that seagrasses may perform up to 18 percent of the ocean’s carbon sequestration, even though they cover only about 0.1 percent of the ocean floor.

This map of seafloor features like abyssal hills in the Indian Ocean is based on sea surface height data from the SWOT satellite. Purple denotes regions that are lower relative to higher areas like ...

Eötvös is the unit of measure for the gravity-based data used to create these maps. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing ...

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.

The Floors of the Ocean, 1959 Thanks to Tharp’s hand-drawn renditions of the ocean floor, I can imagine a walk across the Atlantic Ocean bottom from New York City to Lisbon. The journey would take me ...

Their collaboration included an Indian Ocean map, published by National Geographic in 1967, and a 1977 World Ocean Floor map that is now held at the Library of Congress.