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 ...
The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific, and is nearly doubling the proposed seabed mining area around ...
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 ...
In the western Pacific, the Mariana Trench isn’t the most popular travel spot. It’s frigid and bone-crushingly deep, not something you pick for your vacation. So that’s not surprising that only a ...
Pollution is one of the biggest problems facing planet Earth, a consequence of poor practices and decisions made by humankind ...
Activists from Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and beyond announced Tuesday they collected more than ...
Advocates from across the Pacific will gather online Tuesday morning to share strategies for opposing federal deep-sea mining ...
More than 60,000 petitions, letters, and comments in opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to allow deep-sea mining ...
Newly found polymetallic nodules were spotted on the seabed at 5,645 m water depth to the east of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands by the Orpheus AUV. KINGSTON, R.I. — July 7, 2025 — A ...