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

The Pacific Ocean is a vast expanse that holds many secrets, and recently, scientists have uncovered a rare climate reversal ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific ...

In short, while the picture is authentic, it does not show the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch." Underwater photographer ...

Scientists use satellite data to find ocean zones where trash naturally gathers for easier, faster, and cleaner clean-up.

Much of the debris that ends up in the North Pacific Ocean gets drawn into the North ... vortex of water made up of four prevailing surface currents that move in a clockwise direction: the North ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - La Niña conditions have been present in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific Ocean since ...

Researchers have discovered an "unexpected" accumulation of the radioactive isotope beryllium-10, deep underneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean ... of ocean currents, depositing more than ...

Large-scale wind patterns around the globe drag ocean surface waters ... smaller current loops (gyres) that circulate in the southern Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. Together with gyres ...

Also known as the "channel", it connects the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Ocean basins ... Underwater currents have previously only been monitored on the surface of the water.