How Human Activity Is Impacting the Deepest Parts of the Ocean

The Mariana Trench, the deepest known point on Earth, has long been imagined as a remote and untouched frontier, hidden far beyond the reach of human influence. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, this vast underwater chasm descends to depths of nearly 11,000 meters, where sunlight never penetrates and the pressure is unimaginably intense.

For many years, it was widely assumed that such an extreme environment would remain completely isolated from the effects of human civilization.