Microplastics are so pervasive they have even been discovered in the deepest known part of the ocean: the Mariana Trench. While it has been long understood that microplastics exist on the surface of ...
Pollution is one of the biggest problems facing planet Earth, a consequence of poor practices and decisions made by humankind ...
In the western Pacific, the Mariana Trench isn’t the most popular travel spot. It’s frigid and bone-crushingly deep, not ...
A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near the Mariana Trench. Operationalizing this technology for the first time was ...
More than 60,000 petitions, letters, and comments in opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to allow deep-sea mining ...
This immense pressure, along with ultra-low temperatures and mysterious conditions of the deep sea, make exploring these depths even more challenging than landing on the Moon, according to Yan.