In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...
A groundbreaking seafloor map of the Arctic Ocean reveals an area twice the size of France, part of the global Seabed 2030 ...
The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...
The Southern Ocean surrounds Antarctica and, like the Arctic Ocean, is very cold. Pupils could work to label a world map, showing the locations of the five oceans and could carry out research to ...
NGM MAPS. Source: “spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean,” Ben S. Halpern and others, Nature Communications; UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected ...
Satellite image of the Earth with the Atlantic Ocean in the centre ... Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make ...
A new area equivalent in size to Sweden has been mapped in the Arctic Ocean, contributing to the project's aim to map global seafloor by 2030 ...
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is it? Using the map below, click ...