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A beer bottle found in the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep underscores human impact, prompting questions about its survival and highlighting ocean pollution concerns.
A scientist has called on humanity to do better after she discovered a glass bottle of beer at the deepest point of the Earth.
Very few people have undertaken the mission to dive into the foreboding chasm of the Mariana Trench. Scientist Dawn Wright is counted in that small number, and she’ll be returning to Oregon State University on Wednesday to discuss her trip to the bottom of the sea. Wright’s talk will start at 6 p.m. and is...
Scientists have mapped less than 25% of the world's seafloor. Experts say that getting that number up to 100% would improve everything from tsunami warnings to the Internet and renewable energy. That's why there's currently a global effort to create a full, detailed map of the seabed by 2030. Today, we talk to Dawn Wright, a marine geographer and chief scientist at the Environmental Systems Research Institute about this effort.Curious about ocean science? Email us at shortwave@npr.org.
With only a quarter of the seafloor mapped, the 'Map the Gaps' event at Monaco's Musée Océanographique later this month will be considering the role of 'citizen scientists' and the next generation of mapping technologies in exploring and documenting the full depths of our oceans.