This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic ...

Only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor has been carefully mapped ... it needs to map those realms. Exploration and mapping, and making the data open source, would be for the betterment of ...

The 'David Packard' is named for the Silicon Valley pioneer who donated more than $1 billion to ocean research.

The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces ...

The US feels otherwise. “Under the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act, US companies can apply for exploration licenses ...

A firm developing underwater robots to harvest mineral-rich nodules from the ocean floor is seeking approval to investigate ...

A NASA and CNES satellite lets scientists see the ocean floor in new ways. A NASA and CNES satellite lets scientists see the ocean floor in new ways. Justine Calma is a senior science reporter ...

On Monday, April 14, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that no country should issue permits to extract ocean floor resources without respecting international legal frameworks. This ...

Once the jackup is on location, the legs are lowered to the ocean's floor and the rig hull and ... and the derrick is positioned over it. While exploration wells can be drilled with drilling ...

Image: Popular Science Hartman’s contributions came at a time of rapid transformation in photography, motion pictures, and ocean exploration. Though Thomas Edison had patented his Kinetoscope ...

Great swathes of the ocean floor are at basically the same elevation ... its fathomless depths with a weighted rope. Deep ocean exploration began with the diving bell: a rigid structure that ...