North Korea says its latest weapons test was a new hypersonic intermediate-range missile designed to strike targets in the ...

He was part of the team which discovered the first ocean "garbage patch" in the North Pacific gyre in 1997 and has now turned his attention to the South Pacific. Although plastic is known to occur ...

This remote area of the South Pacific, 34 times larger than France, is the graveyard for hundreds of derelict spacecraft – ...

There are five gyres around the globe, but the best known is probably the North Pacific gyre. It is estimated debris takes about six years to reach the centre of the North Pacific gyre from the ...

The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of ...

Anyone merely aware of the plastic problem might have heard about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is really a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. The size of the ...