essanews.com on MSN1 年
A world without oceans. Map shows what it might look like
This allows for the creation of very realistic and interesting maps simultaneously. One of them, showing the world without ...
BBC4 个月
Explore oceans
The nearest ocean to the UK is the Atlantic Ocean. It stretches from Europe to North and South America, and is the second largest of the five oceans. The water in the oceans is constantly moving ...
ZME Science on MSN1 个月
A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor — and one woman’s pioneering quest to ...
In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...
BBC16 年
The Atlantic Ocean - The Gulf Stream
The Atlantic is the second largest ocean on the planet. It is the resting place of the Titanic, home to the mysterious Bermuda Triangle and is the youngest of the Earth's great oceans. It reaches ...
Center for Biological Diversity6 年
OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION
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 ...
BBC4 年
One-fifth of Earth's ocean floor is now mapped
The initiative that seeks to galvanise the creation of a full map of the ocean floor says one-fifth of this task has now been completed. When the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project was ...
National Geographic news3 年
See Human Impact in an X-Ray of the Ocean
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 ...