This allows for the creation of very realistic and interesting maps simultaneously. One of them, showing the world without ...

In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

As people around the world celebrate Earth Day this year by planting trees and turning off a few lights, scientists look ...

A new global analysis finds that many of the world's most threatened seagrass meadows lie within designated Marine Protected ...

The world is experiencing the most intense global coral bleaching event on record, with 84 percent of reefs experiencing heat stress from warming oceans ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost 80% of the world's marine fish stocks are now fully ... Rising temperatures are remaking the map of the oceans. As polar ice retreats, the Northwest Passage could become an economically ...