But perhaps the most surprising thing you'll discover inside the Mariana Trench is this: Plastic. In 1998, a remotely operated submersible detected a plastic bag at 10,898 meters. And in 2019 ...

Testing has found microplastics in rice, tea, salt, sugar, beer, processed foods, milk, bottled water, and a range of seafood. We each ingest up to an estimated 3.8 million pieces of microplastic ...

The Australian Government has been working since 2002 to reduce how much PFAS are used in Australia. It has banned the import ...

Plastic pollution is a scourge that is ravaging ... The deepest part of the ocean is found in the Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands.

From the Mariana Trench to the Everest summit, plastic waste has left no part of the planet untouched. Growing global awareness of the scope of the problem has led to a push for change.

A deep-sea robot is released onto the seafloor of the Mariana Trench, reaching a depth of 10,666 meters. [Photo provided to China Daily] A team of Chinese scientists has developed a miniature 2.7 ...

Yet we know very little about their inhabitants, especially on the ocean floor. Since the 1960s, multiple missions—some autonomous, others manned—have sought to explore the deepest part of the Pacific ...

A rising tide of plastic waste is choking our oceans, threatening fragile ecosystems and killing sea life. While plastic has revolutionised our way of life since it was invented in the 1950s, the ...