Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown—an uncharted ... chief of the Geology and Maps Division of the Library ...

Canadian miner The Metals Company said on Thursday it had formally initiated a process under the U.S. Department of Commerce to apply for exploration licenses and permits to extract minerals from the ...

Their manned descent to the Challenger Deep, about 36,000 feet below the ocean, marked a significant milestone for humanity, per the Department of Defense ... world would be required to reach the ...

A new effort to map the ocean floor funded by the Office of Naval Research uses the magic of mathematics and the power of ...

It is here that new ocean floor is continuously created. As the two sides of the mountain move away from each other, magma wells up from the Earth's interior. It then solidifies into rock as it is ...

NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean maps yet.

9.1 The Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea is headed by a Director who is accountable to the United Nations Legal Counsel. 9.2 The core functions of the Division are as follows ...

As part of the ongoing effort, a NASA-supported team recently published one of the most detailed maps yet of the ocean floor, using data from the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography ...

For example, it’s expected that a global effort to map the entire ocean floor will be completed by 2030. The plan for the UN Decade has recently been approved and I’m excited by all it offers.