Photograph by David Doubilet The Sargasso Sea, part of the vast whirlpool known as the North Atlantic gyre, often has been ... such as ocean acidification and pollution. When it needs protecting ...

A new study, published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, has found the waters of the North Atlantic gyre contain greater quantities of plastic, such as polyethylene, polypropylene, acrylic ...

The region, located in the North Atlantic Ocean ... overfishing, pollution from floating debris and, of course, climate change. Because of the ocean gyres’s circulating motions, plastic swirls ...

A state hearing in Lancaster Monday night on the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline’s proposal to offset air pollution in Lancaster County drew 200 people — at least for a few minutes. After the first ...