Although its land area is modest – only 1.7 square kilometers – Clipperton’s strategic and ecological significance is ...

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The Russian official — until recently in charge of the firm that has stitched together vast maps of South Pole hydrocarbons — is helping negotiate Putin’s ‘scientific’ interests at the prestigious ...

A cutting-edge submersible uncovered hidden Antarctic wonders—then mysteriously disappeared, leaving scientists baffled.

Key Takeaways on Deep Ocean Exploration: We have visually explored less than 0.001 percent of the deep sea floor. To put that in perspective, 66 percent of the planet is deep ocean, and 99.999 percent ...

Scientists have begun harnessing the powerful, low-frequency songs of whales to map the ocean floor to understand water topography.

New study shows just how little – about 99.999% – of the world’s oceanic depths have been viewed by human eyes.

Another notable project is the Southern Ocean Passive Acoustic Observatory, which has been using recordings of Antarctic blue whales to map remote regions around Antarctica that are challenging to ...

An ultra-detailed map of the ocean floor uses gravity-based data collected by satellite. NASA and CNES launched the satellite to survey Earth’s surface water.

A Chicago-sized iceberg recently broke away from Antarctica, giving scientists the chance to explore a portion of the sea floor that may have been hidden for centuries.

Gallager, Asper and their team went to survey the sea floor around Palmer Station to locate possible sites for the installation of the first underwater cabled observatory in Antarctica.

That map is then used for charting or to help geologists understand what the sea floor is made of and what it looks like. Wilcox said only about 25 per cent of the world's ocean floor is mapped.