The oceans teem with photosynthesizing bacteria, tiny-tailed dinoflagellates gobbling other plankton, algae surrounded by ...

Results indicate that ocean acidification could reduce primary ... were performed at 45 stations in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, the northern South China Sea, and the North Pacific ...

The Atlantic Ocean has a higher salt concentration than ... The North and South Pacific Gyres circulate water differently, forming a natural barrier between the two oceans. Because these currents ...

The fallout from the North Sea oil tanker collision on March 10 may have you reflecting on other significant man-made ...

The arrival of iguanas in the South Pacific can only be explained, a team of biologists have argued, if they caught a lift on ...

It has formed due to the North Pacific Gyre (NPG), a system of ocean currents that traps debris within a swirling vortex. Covering an estimated 1.6 million square kilometres (617,763 square miles ...

Pacific Primrose ... scientific questions about ocean plastics, co-founders Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins led 19 research expeditions in all five subtropical gyres, as well as many of the ...

to reveal the widespread presence of microplastics across all five subtropical gyres — vast, slow-moving accumulation zones created by circular ocean currents, wind patterns, and the Earth's ...

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 ...