I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Despite its isolation, the Mariana Trench is tainted by pollution, with microplastics found even in its remote depths, ...

At ocean-ocean convergences, one plate usually dives beneath the other, forming deep trenches like the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean, the deepest point on Earth. These types of ...

and earthquake epicenters along the boundaries where the plates meet, called fault lines. The Ring of Fire is home to the deepest ocean trench, called the Mariana Trench. Located east of Guam ...

A new ocean is in the process of forming, a consequence of tectonic movements that are splitting the African continent. This event, which could happen in the next five to ten million years, will mark ...