1.

The Mariana Trench is a crescent-shaped trench in the Western Pacific, just east of the
Mariana Islands near Guam. The region surrounding the trench is noteworthy for many
unique environments. The Mariana Trench contains the deepest known points on Earth,
vents bubbling up liquid sulfur and carbon dioxide, active mud volcanoes and marine life
adapted to pressures 1,000 times that at sea level.

The Challenger Deep, in the southern end of the Mariana Trench (sometimes called the
Marianas Trench), is the deepest spot in the ocean. Its depth is difficult to measure from the
surface, but modern estimates vary by less than 1,000 feet (305 meters).

By Becky Oskin December 06, 2017 Planet Earth

2. The Philippines was ranked the 3rd top source of plastic leaking into oceans in a
February 2015 study. The country generates 2.7 million metric tons of plastic garbage each
year, 20% or 521,000 tons of which ends up in the ocean.

-by international group Ocean Conservancy and McKinsey Center for Business and
Environment

3. Our atmosphere contains more water as vapor than all the rivers in the world combined.
If this vapor came down as water it would be enough to cover the whole world with about
an inch of water.

-by S. H. Schneider, Oxford University Press