Explore six of Earth’s most mysterious and largely untouched regions, from the dense Amazon's Vale do Javari and Bhutan's ...

It appears to be an alien planet. What is the ocean's deepest point? What lives in the Mariana Trench—and what has been discovered recently?

A scientist made a disturbing discovery at the bottom of Challenger Deep which is 35,000 ft below sea level, showing climate ...

Since the 1960s, multiple missions—some autonomous, others manned—have sought to explore the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, the Mariana Trench. Over 30,000 feet deep, it could completely submerge ...

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

Testing has found microplastics in rice, tea, salt, sugar, beer, processed foods, milk, bottled water, and a range of seafood ...

By contrast, Mount Everest only climbs 29,031 feet. Parts of the Mariana Trench have been explored, including a famous solo descent by Canadian film director James Cameron in 2012 – who made it ...

In some of the Earth's most remote and inaccessible regions, there are traces of humankind. There's plastic in the Mariana Trench. Mount Everest looks like a garbage dump. And the Arctic Ocean is ...

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