Deep in the western Pacific Ocean lies one of the most extreme environments on Earth. The Mariana Trench is not a place ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in its various incarnations, has been delivering us valuable data about our world for over two centuries. It closely monitors the ...

Plan advances administration’s goal to conserve and restore 30 percent of nation’s lands and waters by 2030. NOAA Fisheries, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Commonwealth of the Northern ...

Explore Earth's Deepest Trenches: Discover the extreme geology, astonishing marine life, and human exploration of the abyssal ...

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Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's now taken a dive into the Mariana Trench. The team successfully demonstrated that its ...

A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near the Mariana Trench. Operationalizing this technology for the first time was ...

Two UC Davis alumni set sail Saturday on a 22-day expedition to the Mariana Islands aboard the Nautilus, a deep-sea exploration vessel operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust, the nonprofit ...

The project explores how life adapts to extreme environments—and hopes to inspire new drugs or even treatments to aid space travel. We’ve only scratched the surface of what thrives in the deepest ...

The Mariana Trench has long captured the public's imagination. Here are some facts about one of the Earth's great wonders. Q. What is the Mariana Trench? The trench is the deepest place on Earth, ...

US agency releases plan to lease millions of hectares of seabed off the coast of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam ...