A leading ocean engineer says long-held public beliefs that the Mariana Trench or Saipan's coral reef would shield the ...

With less than a handful of days to provide public comments, concerns are growing over plans for deep sea mining in the Marianas. A protest and community meeting are being organized by local organizat ...

By Elizabeth Claire Alberts U.S.-led plans to mine the deep seabed have gained momentum since President Donald Trump signed ...

As the federal government pushes forward with plans to lease ocean floor areas near Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for deep seabed mining, local officials and ...

Bizarre noises detected around the deepest ocean trench on Earth have finally been identified. These strange "biotwang" sounds—first detected in 2014 during an acoustic survey of the Mariana ...

Earth’s oceans hold some of the least explored places on the planet, shaped over millions of years by tectonic forces that ...

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 ...

Scientists have found that man-made mercury pollution has reached the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean—the Marianas Trench. This has significant implications for how mercury affects the marine ...

Deep enough to stack more than a dozen Burj Khalifas, one on top of the other.

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