The map now shows almost 20 per cent of the Arctic Ocean floor. The last version, published in 2012, covered only about seven per cent of it. Understanding climate change ...

In February 2025, Seabed 2030 celebrated another 1.4 million square kilometers of seabed map on the International Bathymetric ...

Satellite Maps Arctic Ocean Floor. Terra Daily. May 31, 2012. A ... satellite launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic is also yielding high-resolution mapping of the ocean floor.

This addition contributes to the Seabed 2030 project, which aims to map the entire ocean floor by 2030. The project, launched in 2017, published its findings in -Scientific Data by Nature ...

Scientists are mapping the entire ocean floor as part of an ambitious project that could finally find the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. They will use state-of-the-art technology to explo… ...

Diversity of novel hydrothermal vent styles on the Arctic ocean floor. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 12 / 241219152212.htm ...

The Arctic Ocean is experiencing some of the world's most drastic warming from climate change. In recent years, scientists have measured dwindling ice cover as record high temperatures inch up and up.

At its peak in winter, ice covers about 6 million square miles, on average, of the Arctic Ocean. The 2012 record low was 1.3 million square miles. Most of the years since then have ranked among ...

Woods Hole, Mass. (Dec. 19, 2024) -- A new study about Earth’s northernmost seafloor hydrothermal system shows even more variety in vent styles than previously thought. In addition, the study ...

Summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean might be gone by the 2030s, no matter what we do to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, study says. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap ...

A groundbreaking seafloor map of the Arctic Ocean reveals an area twice the size of France, part of the global Seabed 2030 project. This discovery enhances understanding of the ocean's mysteries ...

Beneath the Arctic sea floor, vast amounts of methane are trapped as ice-like, solid mixtures of gas and water called hydrates, which are stored in the sediment and constantly fed by gas from below.