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, ...

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

Languages: English. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, beachgoers are being warned to stay out of the water as a surge of hazardous ocean conditions triggers advisories across U.S. coastlines this ...

Marine Traffic map lets anyone trace a vessel that has a position ‘transponder’ similar to those used by aircraft Transponder broadcasts the ships’ position, name, course and speed allowing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...