And if you want to understand precisely how sea-levels will rise in different parts of the world, good ocean-floor maps are a must. Much of the data that's been imported into the GEBCO grid ...

The Southern Ocean surrounds Antarctica and, like the Arctic Ocean, is very cold. Pupils could work to label a world map, showing the locations of the five oceans and could carry out research to ...

With ocean levels rising ... making the list and being shown on an interactive map. More than 226 million people in the 36 ...

A newly-deployed satellite has created the most-detailed map yet of the ocean floor, finding hundreds of hills and underwater volcanoes that were previously missed. A new satellite has mapped ...

World Database on Protected Areas (2016) This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The map above is essentially an x-ray of the ocean, and the colors show where ...

Geographically, this ocean is divided into five distinct regions, commonly called the world's oceans. These oceans, while ...

A turtle with a plastic bag in its mouth. Rubbish finds its way around the world, pollutes the oceans and can be harmful to sea creatures. Some kinds of rubbish, such as plastic, are eaten by sea ...