By Edward Carver Fishing vessels can often work long periods at sea without coming to port, thanks to the practice of ...

Ocean waves, particularly long-period swells ... from an extremely intense low pressure system in the North Pacific in ...

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

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 ...

The Center also helps the whale by fighting threats it faces, including ocean noise, ship strikes and oil and gas development. A 2010 Center lawsuit, for example, helped cancel an oil and gas lease ...