The investigative minds at How to Survive examine extreme pressure, human physiology, and technological limits related to survival at Mariana Trench depths.

Plastic pollution is everywhere—including where you would least expect it, especially when it's in tiny particle form. Today, ...

There is no mistaking the 15 cm (6 in) teeth of the largest apex predator, the megalodon. Getting bitten by this beast would feel like being crushed by three African elephants stacked on top of each ...

About 80 people packed the room for the second of two events in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The first ...

Pollution is one of the biggest problems facing planet Earth, a consequence of poor practices and decisions made by humankind ...

The ocean floor is becoming a massive plastic dump, with debris accumulating in deep-sea canyons and harming marine life.

The growing threat of microplastics might be daunting, but a promising study now suggests that the situation might not be as ...

Challenger Deep is the deepest part of all the oceans on Earth. Animals that live there have to deal with the most hostile living conditions and pressures. Click through our slideshow to meet the ...

More than 3,000 people from U.S. territories have signed a petition opposing proposed deep seabed mining in waters near the Mariana Islands and American Samoa, warning of irreversible environmental ...

We are thousands of miles apart, but the Pacific Ocean unites our islands. The archipelagos of the Mariana Islands (the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam) and American Samoa are also united by the ...

The ocean covers more than two-thirds of the planet and remains one of the most unexplored and mysterious environments on ...

The hadal zone—found more than 20,000 feet below the ocean’s surface—is among the most remote and mysterious regions on Earth. Beyond that depth, where darkness is absolute and conditions seem utterly ...