"A symbol of how deeply and irrevocably humans are affecting the natural world." Scientist makes startling discovery at Earth ...

An expert diver's record-breaking feat was supplemented, not by the discovery of a magical marine creature, but by plastic ...

Deep below the Pacific Ocean lies the Mariana Trench, which is home to the Earth's deepest known point of the seabed, plunging to 10,935 metres below sea level.

Due to this phenomenon, the Pacific Ocean basin is currently shrinking by about 2.5 cm (1 in) per year on three sides, ...

Captain Buckle set a course for the Challenger Deep, more than 200 miles out to sea. But when the ship arrived above the dive spot, the expected clearing did not come. Captain Buckle retreated to ...

Kelly Walsh, the son of the great ocean explorer Don Walsh ... on camera Larry Mayer/University of New Hampshire Challenger Deep (red pin) is the deepest part of the deepest ocean trench on ...

China has built the world’s first machine capable of laying submarine cables in the Challenger Deep, the deepest known place on Earth. Positioned at the southern end of the Mariana Trench in the ...

Norwegians haul up from the deep a sea lily, a living fossil previously found only in rocks 120 million years old. British ship Challenger sails the globe while lowering dredges and other gear ...

Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench, is the deepest point in the ocean known so far, at approximately 11 kilometres - deeper than Mount Everest is tall. The Mariana Trench is 2,500 kilometres long, ...

The Australian National Maritime Museum is thrilled to become the temporary home of the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, the iconic submersible which took James ...

I think one of the saddest examples of our litter in the deep ocean is a plastic shopping bag was found at the bottom of the Marinara Trench, a place called Challenger Deep, which is over 10,000 ...