The researchers sent a manned submarine into deep waters. Scientists issue dire warning after disturbing discovery made at the bottom of the ocean: 'Not a single inch of it is clean' first appeared on ...

Over the past decade, environmental disasters that have damaged the world’s oceans have been chronicled. These range from ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...

The deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea, Calypso Deep, was found to be a bit of a dump. That's surprising because we don't ...

Today, scientists know that the patch is the result of a combination of ocean currents that corral tons of manmade trash into a vortex of sorts. It covers and absolutely huge area, comparable to ...

The debris at the bottom of the Calypso Deep "comes from various sources, both terrestrial and marine. It could have arrived by various routes, including both long-distance transport by ocean ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - NOAA researchers recently made an unlikely discovery while exploring the wreckage of the USS Nevada.

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

China's maritime authority has issued a warning of falling rocket debris in the South China Sea, according to a notice dated March 26. The warning covers a period between 1600 and 1700 GMT on March 29 ...