This summer, scientists mapped more than 20,000 square miles in the Gulf of Mexico. The red lines indicate newly mapped areas of the continental shelf. * Illustration: Chuck Carter/Paul Morin * Two ...

In recent weeks, outgoing President Joe Biden and incoming President Donald Trump each issued a Presidential Memorandum to withdraw extensive areas of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for future ...

CIRES researchers help map one million square kilometers of new U.S. seafloor in historic project The United States has established sovereign rights over an additional one million square kilometers of ...

“Argentina will not exercise these rights over territories and maritime spaces which the United Kingdom is administrating unilaterally since 1833”, said Foradori. The twenty year effort took off under ...

This week's Sea-Floor Sunday image is historical. A few months ago I stumbled upon the NOAA Photo Library, which contains a wealth of The map below (from this page on the NOAA Photo Library site) is a ...

Sweden’s largest icebreaker will be plowing through the frozen waters of the eastern Arctic Ocean later this summer in part to help a Canadian research team map the limits of their nation’s ...

Continental shelf seas—the shallow waters surrounding our coasts that provide most of the world's seafood—are absorbing more carbon than they release, with the strength and direction of the prevailing ...

Trapped inside the shoreline of a bay, the resonant interactions of a tsunami with regular waves can prolong the tsunami disturbance. For the 2021 magnitude 7 Acapulco, Mexico earthquake and tsunami, ...