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A multinational team of scientists aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus will set sail Monday for a 22-day mission to ...

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Microplastics are so pervasive they have even been discovered in the deepest known part of the ocean: the Mariana Trench. While it has been long understood that microplastics exist on the surface of ...

Microplastics are so pervasive they have even been discovered in the deepest known part of the ocean: the Mariana Trench. While it has been long understood that microplastics exist on the surface ...

Mariana-trench. 1840489pavan nd, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. In one of the most exciting marine biology discoveries to date, researchers have located a fish species at the deepest point ever ...

In the Arctic, concentrations exceeded 2,500 particles per cubic meter, and in the Pacific’s Mariana Trench, at depths of up to 6,800 meters, levels reached as high as 13,500. This irregular ...