Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

Important state variables measured for parcels of water in the ocean are therefore temperature, which is related to the heat content, salinity, which is related to the amount of dissolved matter ...

This water, which is carried to such depths by subducting tectonic slabs, is stored in minerals ... Global sea level rose faster than expected in 2024, mostly because of ocean water expanding as ...

Launched in December 2022, the satellite measures the height of water on nearly all of Earth’s surface, including the ocean, lakes, reservoirs ... be barren patches of seafloor. The improved view from ...

Which leaves an intriguing question: why aren't they scooping up water from the nearby Pacific Ocean? As Patrick Megonigal, associate director of research at the Smithsonian Environmental Research ...

Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences that make up about 40 percent of the world's ocean surfaces ... to regulate plastics as a pollutant under the Clean Water Act and ...