Prince Albert II of Monaco inaugurated the permanent GEBCO Secretariat, giving the world's only internationally mandated ...

The ocean floor covers nearly three-quarters of the planet. Almost three-quarters of that surface has never been mapped to modern scientific standards. The map that first made any of it visible — a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one example, the Dong Fang Hong 3, a research vessel operated by Ocean University of China, spent 2024 and 2025 sailing back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tharp with an undersea map at her desk. Rolled sonar profiles of the ocean floor are on the shelf behind her. Lamont-Doherty Earth ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Why do Earth's continents look like they fit together? In the early 20th century, this was one of geology's greatest ...

Imagine, for a moment, what it would mean for this economy if we didn’t have maps: Transportation, trade, resource extraction, disaster mitigation — so much of what we do would be made more ...

Beneath the surface of the world’s oceans, a strategic competition is unfolding that most people never see. While headlines focus on aircraft carriers and hypersonic missiles, China is quietly ...

China is conducting a vast undersea mapping and monitoring operation across the Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans, building detailed knowledge of marine conditions that naval experts say would be ...

The ocean floor covers nearly three-quarters of the planet. Almost three-quarters of that surface has never been mapped to modern scientific standards. The map that first made any of it visible — a ...