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 ...
In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown — an ...
The ocean has always looked like a blank blue expanse on most maps, yet beneath that surface lies a layered, living architecture that scientists are only now beginning to chart in detail. From the ...
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Gas escaping from the ocean floor may provide some answers to understanding historical global warming cycles and provide information on current climate changes, according to ...