By Mongabay.com In 2008, the United Nations recognized June 8 as World Oceans Day to spotlight the rising vulnerabilities ...

This is a place that no human can reach without extremely specialized equipment, and yet there are plastic ropes, cups, bags, cans, and much more all over ... Deepest Trenches In The Ocean Are ...

All of the bodies of water on Earth that ... The discovery of both trenches and mid-ocean ridges paved the way for geologists to accept plate tectonics by providing an explanation for how the ...

So, I've seen all of the continental United States ... the deepest known point of the Mariana Trench, and the ocean. Jim Kitchen and his pilot Tim McDonald in the submarine they used to travel ...

four other trenches—the Kermadec, Kuril-Kamchatka, Philippine, and Tonga, all in the Western Pacific Ocean—have been identified as deeper than 10,000 meters (32,808 feet). 3. Jacques Cousteau ...

the Mariana Trench. While it has been long understood that microplastics exist on the surface of oceans, a team of researchers from four continents has found plastic waste throughout all ocean ...

“Not much room at all,” says Walsh “about the ... I went to another planet and back The Mariana Trench is a crescent-shaped fissure in the ocean floor 200 kilometres east of the Mariana ...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean. Its deepest point ... likely to help sustain such high pressure — and a translucent exterior that reveals all their inner organs. Cusk-eels have ...

“Right away, all of our preconceptions about the ... the seawater and magma rising from beneath the ocean floor. 5. The Mariana Trench was designated as a US national monument in 2009 The ...

Scientists sampled fish living in the Pacific's Mariana Trench and trenches in the Indian Ocean. . | Credit ... for making the deep sea their home, all the fishes studied living below 9,800 ...

The enormous trench in the western Pacific Ocean near Guam is over 36,000 feet ... Laura is particularly fascinated by all things aquatic, paleontology, nanotechnology, and exploring how science ...

"The Japanese trenches were incredible places to explore; they are so rich in life, even all the way at the bottom ... which is in the western Pacific Ocean closer to Guam.