Last Updated on July 30, 2025 by Matt Staff Throughout history, explorers have pushed the boundaries of the known world, ...

A new map shows that human activity has heavily affected more than 40 percent of the world's oceans. Hardly any areas remain untouched. See the full map B.S. Halpern ...

June 8 was UN World Oceans Day, and this year's theme is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us." One researcher who has spent years exploring these wonders is Vicki Ferrini, a marine geophysicist ...

The U.N.-backed project, called Seabed 2030, is urging countries and companies to pool data to create a map of the entire ocean floor by 2030. The map will be freely available to all.

The winning SeaKIT surface vessel More than 80 percent of the world’s oceans are currently unmapped, but a $7 million prize pool to explore the deep sea hopes to change that. The Ocean Discovery ...