The curious minds at What If explore terrifying depths on a Mariana Trench mission, revealing unknown species, pressure, and temperature extremes.

The captain sounds the alarm. The waters around the ship rumble. Strange lights from deep below inch closer and closer to you. Something is emerging from the Mariana Trench, and it does not belong on ...

I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even understand what we're losing.

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...

As Guam and the CNMI await the next steps in a potential federal push for deep-sea mining in the region, the Trump administration is easing permitting requirements for mining and exploration in waters ...