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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Activists from Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and beyond announced Tuesday they collected more than ...

More than 60,000 petitions, letters, and comments in opposition to the Trump administration’s plans to allow deep-sea mining ...