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 ...

The great Pacific garbage patch is believed to have the size of the state of Texas In a part of the ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre, human-produced plastic has increased 100-fold over the ...

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 ...

Named the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, it spins continually and is constantly supplied with fresh cargo spills by currents coming from Japan. This year, stronger and longer southwesterly winds ...

but it's just part of the North Pacific gyre, an ocean region where currents collect plastic. Researchers from the Ocean Cleanup just conducted a survey of plastic in the area, using boats to ...