While the deep ocean is considered one of the most important, and relatively safest, places for mercury to end up, the rates of accumulation were up to 56 times greater than prior estimates.

Scientists have discovered the presence of chemical pollutants in some of the ocean’s deepest trenches, previously thought to be nearly untouched by human influence. In fact, they’ve found ...

In the 6.8-mile-deep Mariana Trench, the lowest point in any ocean, all of the specimens had plastic in their gut. Examples of fibers from trench amphipods (Lauren Brooks / Newcastle University) ...

New Study Reveals That The Deepest Trenches In The Ocean Are Filled With More Trash Than Most People Would Believe. Story by Michael Levanduski • 1h. Source: Marine Pollution Bulletin 2025 (CC ...

The water within these trenches is known as the hadal zone—the area of ocean lying 20,000 to 36,000 feet beneath the surface of the water. Between 2018 and 2019, Vescovo visited all five of the ...

Plastic waste has been discovered in the deepest point in the world – the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. At depths of 22,000 ft, scientists found 13,500 particles per cubic metre. open ...

On Aprıl 10 the U.S. research vessel Thomas G. Thompson will steam 900 kilometers northeast from New Zealand and stop in the wide open Pacific Ocean. If all goes according to plan, it will ...

A new study has found that the nuclear tests performed during the Cold War during the 1950s and 1960s have left a very disturbing legacy on our planet — they have infiltrated the bodies of ...

All in all, the trench turned out to be a biological hot spot. Paul Yancey, a team biologist from Whitman College, says, "It's looking like there's a lot more life down there than we thought.

The Trench sits like a crescent-shaped dent in the floor of the Pacific Ocean, extending over 1500 miles long with an average width around 43 miles and a depth of almost 7 miles (or just under ...

In 2021, Chinese scientists boarded a deep-sea sub, Fendouzhe, and ventured to the depths of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. Over 33 dives, they collected thousands of sediment ...