On a practical level, the maps can help submarines navigate more safely through previously mysterious ocean terrains. They can also inform the precarious work of laying down and repairing ...

The maps were published today in the journal Nature ... To better protect the world’s oceans and fisheries, policymakers need a more accurate picture of where people are exploiting resources ...

Many maps of the ocean floor are decades old. The race is on to properly chart them by 2030 – and crowdsourcing could be part of the answer. Tucked inside a federal government building in the ...

Instead, the new map shows a different story: Of every ten vessels in the ocean, seven are located off the coast of Asia, while just one is near Europe. In the Mediterranean Sea, previous numbers ...

Analysts used deep learning models and 2 petabytes of satellite imagery to map industrial activities spanning more than 15% of the ocean between ... fishing activity in Europe and Asia were ...

Our understanding of the world's oceans is set for a quantum leap thanks ... collects and shares data from across Europe. But manually processing samples, like counting plankton under microscopes ...

In my opinion, however, even the admiration she has received for her maps—including the “Atlantic Ocean Floor” map, published in 1968 in National Geographic magazine (included below)—doesn ...