With just a few clicks of a mousepad you can journey from your home to Uluru in Australia, the Colosseum in Rome, New York’s Times Square – or even venture up Mount Everest. But have you ever paused ...

This allows for the creation of very realistic and interesting maps simultaneously ... that is about 6,562 - 9,842 ft below sea level, mid-ocean ridges are hidden. Below 19,685 ft, the bottom ...

The world has one ocean and its health is critical ... Plastic waste alone kills up to one million sea birds, a hundred thousand sea mammals and countless fish each year. An estimated 80 per ...

Accurate seafloor maps are also important for an improved understanding of deep-sea currents and tides ... the satellite measures the height of water on nearly all of Earth's surface, including the ...

The map above is essentially an x-ray of the ocean, and the colors show where ... Still, the story isn’t all bad. Some seas have seen reduced human impact—in parts of the North Atlantic ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050 ... debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is ...