Less mapped than the Moon: Quest to reveal the seabed
It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...
New MH370 Search Launched: Map Shows Where They're Looking
The effort hopes to discover the remains of Malaysian Flight 370, which vanished from radar in 2014 with 239 people on board.
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Indo-Pacific security: India mustn’t let Diego Garcia fall off its map
This American air-base in the Indian Ocean has been part of US-UK talks as London plans to hand the island over to Mauritius. Given a cloud over the Quad and our Indo-Pacific stakes, we must hedge ...
MH370 breakthrough: The single yellow pixel that could be the missing plane
"At 5,750 meters deep, it stood out as an extreme anomaly pointing to the potential MH370 crash site. Yet, inconsistencies in ...
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Going with the flow: Visualizing ocean currents with ECCO ocean model
Swirling vortexes of the Agulhas rings stand out in ECCO temperature and salinity maps as they move warm, salty water from the Indian Ocean into the Atlantic. ECCO offers researchers a way to run ...
Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier
Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.
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From Kenya to Madagascar, massive effort aims to put seagrasses on the map
“Currently, there is no standardized seagrass map for the [Western Indian Ocean] region, and the ecosystem is not widely included in management or policy,” Stacy Baez, a senior officer with ...
Madagascar’s lemurs live with the threat of cyclones – has this shaped their behaviour?
Due to ongoing threats of disaster impacts, hunting and deforestation, lemurs are the most endangered group of mammals in the ...