Take a look at the maps in the slideshow and at the link here ... detail than we’ve had previously and set a baseline for the world as it is now. “We know about ecosystems at a macro scale ...

Researchers today published the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced. Data collected by satellites and remote sensing instruments were used to created a model at least twice as ...

Then, they crowdsourced analysis from dozens of volunteers around the world, who looked through Google Earth imagery. In all, the network parsed about 30,000 online map rectangles, ranking each ...