Each tiny dot on this captivating interactive map represents a single cargo ship plying the waters of the world. The mesmerizing digital rendition of global shipping routes is the result of a ...

At any given moment, the world’s oceans are teeming with fleets of commercial ships–carriers packed with barrels of oil, stacks of electronic equipment, or crates of dried goods traveling between ...

A blue whale swims close to a large vessel near the Port of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Asha de Vos, CC BY-ND Imagine you are a blue whale swimming up the California coast, as you do every spring. You are ...

On 8 January 2016, the web site Superstation 95 published an article claiming that for the first time in history, there were no cargo ships traveling in the North Atlantic: Commerce between Europe and ...

For the team aboard the Okeanos Explorer off the coast of Alaska, exploring the mounds and craters of the sea floor along the Aleutian Islands is a chance to surface new knowledge about life in some ...

A new study in Science Advances led by UMBC's Tianle Yuan used satellite data from 2003—2020 to determine the effect of fuel regulations on pollution from cargo ships. The research team's data ...