Efforts to expand deep-sea mining are alarming scientists and Indigenous leaders, who worry mining risks fisheries and food security. Reading time 4 minutes The Trump administration is expanding its ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mariana Trench. the deepest point of the earth. We see a boat on the water and a deep ocean trench below it. The deepest depths of ...

The Mariana Trench has long captured the public's imagination. Here are some facts about one of the Earth's great wonders. Q. What is the Mariana Trench? The trench is the deepest place on Earth, ...

In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh made history by descending into the Mariana Trench. Aboard the Trieste submersible, ...

The bacteria-hunting virus is named vB_HmeY_H4907 and was found 8,900 meters below the surface of the ocean. Reading time 2 minutes In new research this week, scientists say they’ve unearthed a viral ...

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Scientists have stumbled upon a surprising artifact at the furthest reaches of our planet's oceans: a beer bottle. This discovery, made by oceanographer Dr. Dawn Wright in the Challenger Deep of the ...

The project explores how life adapts to extreme environments—and hopes to inspire new drugs or even treatments to aid space travel. We’ve only scratched the surface of what thrives in the deepest ...

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and mollusks nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed, a study ...