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Called the Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean, it's the work of an international team of oceanographers and marine biologists, working together over four years to collate over 9,000 species ...
The first-ever comprehensive map of our planet's marine environment shows that human activity has heavily affected 41 percent of the world's ocean-covered area.
The Internet-based United Nations Atlas of the Oceans was launched on World Environment Day June 5, 2002 at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (United Nations ...
According to Scientific American and other publications, U.S. scientists from various universities, NGOs, and government agencies have built a world map of the human damages to the oceans. They've ...
The result is what the scientists call the first map of human development in the world’s oceans, revealing how much of the marine environment had been altered by our activity.
A sweeping new study has unveiled a global map of marine mollusks that reflects not just present-day ocean conditions but millions of years of geological transformation. Published in Scientific ...
The researchers found that at a depth of 1 meter (3 feet), 1.9 million square kilometers (734,000 square miles) of the world’s coastal oceans were exposed to artificial light at night ...
Maps of the seafloor are constantly expanding, especially with the support of the Seabed 2030 initiative (which Ferrini is part of) that aims to have a complete map of the ocean's floor by 2030.
Atlas of Ocean Wealth maps vast coastal and marine resources that can assist conservation and development plans. Skip to content Bringing science & development together through news & analysis ...
First global map of Titan highlights oceans, plains, dunes and mountains By Michael Irving. November 18, 2019 Facebook; ... he joined New Atlas as a staff writer in 2016.
San Francisco, New York City, Shanghai. Climate change will alter these centers of civilization and culture beyond recognition over the coming decades. As human activity remakes the climate ...