With more than 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic – and counting – The Great North Pacific Garbage Patch has more plastic than ...

An estimated 100,000 tons of floating plastic polluting 620,000 square miles of the Pacific is at risk of infecting the food ...

‘There’s nothing like it in any other ocean,’ says marine biologist Brian ... part of the vast whirlpool known as the North Atlantic gyre, often has been described as an oceanic desert ...

The Sargasso Sea is a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre. Unlike all other regions called sea, it has no land boundaries. The sea is bound by the Gulf ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui by the locals, is a remote island off the coast of Chile. As of 2023, its population ...

Much of the debris that ends up in the North Pacific Ocean gets drawn into the North Pacific Gyre by currents. The North Pacific Gyre is a swirling vortex of water made up of four prevailing ...

The gyre is a sprawling area of low pressure that feeds off moisture streaming in from the Pacific Ocean and forms near or over Central America. At its core, it is a heavy rain producer with ...

The prospect of the Madden-Julian oscillation, combining with the return of the Central American Gyre has the potential ... over the eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday. The storm is expected to ...

The Ocean Cleanup More than half the items the researchers ... buoys and even vessels that have been floating in the gyre since the Japanese tsunami in 2011. The researchers, who reported their ...