While it has been long understood that microplastics exist on the surface of oceans, a team of researchers from four ...

Plastic waste has been discovered in the deepest point in the world – the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. At depths of 22,000 ft, scientists found 13,500 particles per cubic metre.

As scientists reveal we have only explored 0.001 per cent of the deep ocean, an interactive graphic shows what is lurking beneath the waves.

The world generated an estimated 400 million tons of plastic waste last year. This torrent of water and shampoo bottles, ...

Mr. Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer, made the unsettling discovery as he descended nearly 10,928m to a point in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench that is the deepest place on Earth ...

Challenger Deep, located in the western Pacific Ocean in the southern end of the Mariana Trench, is the deepest part of the ocean ... complete darkness as light doesn't reach below a certain point - ...

Mariana-trench. 1840489pavan nd, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. In one of the most exciting marine biology discoveries to date, researchers have located a fish species at the deepest point ever ...