Vescovo gave depressing insight into humankind’s impact on these seemingly untouchable remote locations when he observed a plastic bag and candy wrappers at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

The Mariana Trench's remote location and distance from human habitation may seem to absolve humanity of responsibility for ...

Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard making their way to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960 (NOAA Ship ... the rebounding shock waves to create a map of the ocean floor. Pretty certain they were ...

Yet again, plastic is proving to be everywhere in the sea. During a dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench that purportedly reached 35,849 feet, Dallas businessman Victor Vescovo claims to have ...

If you asked what’s the deepest trench on Earth, almost everyone would answer the Mariana Trench ... team of glaciologists who set out to map the contours of the Antarctic continental land.

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 ...