She said: “The presence of plastic pollution within the ... along a longitudinal gradient traversing the subtropical gyre in the North Atlantic Ocean. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2022; 185: ...

A study has measured the amount of plastic ... of surface ocean currents and prevailing winds. “This convergence zone... extends across most of the sub-tropical North Atlantic basin,” they ...

A clump of sargassum weed the size of a soccer ball drifts near Bermuda in the slow swirl of the Sargasso Sea, part of the North Atlantic gyre ... like it in any other ocean,’ says marine ...

Plastic pollution is a significant issue in Hawaii, mainly due to its location in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre—a massive system of rotating ocean currents. This current system traps debris ...

Because of Hawai'i's location in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, ocean currents deliver to our shores plastic waste from around the world, and nearby is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The AMOC moves warm, salty surface-ocean water from the subtropics northward to higher latitudes above 40°N in the subpolar North Atlantic, where heat loss to the atmosphere allows it to cool ...

The North Pacific subarctic-subtropical boundary region is an important sink for atmospheric CO₂, with high annual influx relative to surrounding waters and large seasonal variability. The location of ...

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 ...