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Drain the Oceans, Or Not

Posted in Science!, tagged fun, history, maps, #365Ways, oceans, #365Ways2026, Doggerland on October 1, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Drain the oceans and flood the land with this sea level simulator

You’ve surely seen interactive maps showing the effects of the sea level rising, but Sliding Shores makes a game of it: you get a beautifully-rendered globe and a slider to raise or lower the oceans. There’s a load of presets, from “oceans drained” to “drown Everest,” a feat not even Waterworld managed.

Here’s the actual tool: Sliding Shores — Interactive Sea Level Rise Simulator by Richard Franklin.

(It had me at “Boil off 100 feet and we get Doggerland back!” Want to more about why that’s cool? It’s a real-life Atlantis, kinda sorta! Check out this backgrounder.)

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From the Surface of the Sea

Posted in Science!, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, oceans, science, Thoughts on July 21, 2025| Leave a Comment »

If you’ve ever wondered what’s down in the ocean deeps, the funnest version of the answer is that we mostly don’t know!

Here’s an interesting article featuring graphic illustrations by Angela Hsieh, showing what we know about the ocean, its depths, the differences between the Sunlit, Midnight, and other zones, and the many (many) things we have yet to discover about the oceans that surround us.

Why researchers are racing to study the world’s ocean – NPR

Did you know that the ocean produces approximately half of the world’s oxygen? Or that key medicines have come from ocean discoveries, like a painkiller found in a sea snail?

It’s all true! And so is this fact: Scientists know more about space than Earth’s ocean. Seriously, humans haven’t seen 99.999% of the deep sea floor.

So cool!

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