Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

When the Kīlauea Volcano erupted in May 2018, an enormous amount of ash was released into the atmosphere in a plume nearly ...

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 Beaufort Gyre in the Arctic Ocean holds today large amounts of fresh water. If the gyre weakens due to climate change, it will release freshwater that could flood the North Atlantic and have an ...

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 ...

Celia Konowe is originally from Reston, VA and earned her bachelor's degree in... July 7, 2020 Fishing nets and debris being removed from the North Pacific Gyre by ...

Abell, J., S. Emerson, and P. Renaud. 2000. Distributions of TOP, TON and TOC in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: Implications for nutrient supply in the surface ocean and remineralization in the ...

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 ...