Geographer Alastair Bonnett on his pick of the most diverse maps, from a collection of 100,000 galaxies to a 12th-century ...

The Florida current, which is the beginning of the Gulfstream, is a key component of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a three-dimensional system of ocean currents that act as a ...

In addition, the rugged seafloor influences the behaviour of ocean currents and the vertical ... rise in different parts of the world, good ocean-floor maps are a must. Much of the data that's ...

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Anna Turns sets sail from Plymouth Sound to explore the significance of blue carbon in marine habitats around the UK.

The world’s oceans also play an important role ... in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The map below shows the pattern of currents across the world. You can see that: The currents ...

New research challenges current thinking on the ocean’s role in storing carbon. A new MIT study challenges previous ...

At current rates plastic is expected to ... is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is it? Using the map ...

Discover what causes huge quantities of garbage to end up on the most remote islands in the world and how this garbage affects wildlife. Accompanies the Web video “Trash on the Spin Cycle”.

A new study by scientists at the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS), the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, NOAA’s Atlantic ...

At current rates plastic is expected to ... is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is it? Using the map ...