China Publishes Maps Detailing Minerals on the Ocean Floor

The new deep-sea atlas underscores Beijing’s interest in ocean mining, its military ambitions and its claims to disputed ...
MIT Technology Review

Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining

But it isn’t doing it alone; for a month starting this week, it will deploy two oblong neon submersibles as the project’s ...
Phys.org

Deep sea landscapes are a new frontier of human exploration—here's what we may find

When we dream of landscapes, we might imagine rolling valleys or rugged mountains. But there is a whole landscape hidden from human view: the secret world of the seafloor. Half of Earth's oceans are ...
Science Daily

'Scratching' more than the ocean's surface to map global microplastic movement

An international team of scientists has moved beyond just 'scratching the surface,' to understand how microplastics move through and impact the global ocean. For the first time, scientists have mapped ...
NPR

Humans still haven't seen 99.999% of the deep seafloor

Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and blobfish make their home in the dark, cold, depths of the deep sea, but most of this watery realm remains a complete mystery. That's because humans have seen ...
sciencex

Underwater robots take to the deep to map unexplored oceans

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) from the University of Sydney will be taking a deep dive in the oceans surrounding Norfolk Island to collect high-resolution seafloor images. The images will then ...
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Deep learning turns weather satellite data into ocean current maps

Scientists have developed GOFLOW, a deep learning method that uses thermal imagery from geostationary weather satellites to produce hourly, high-detail maps of ocean surface currents. The system ...