A new report shows the rapid increase of plastic pollution spreading across the world's oceans, jumping from an estimated 16 trillion pieces in 2005 to more than 171 trillion pieces of plastic today.

The North Pacific Gyre, or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, spans over 500,000 square miles, or about twice the size of Texas, and contains everything from large debris to microplastics that have ...

Boise is approximately 400 miles inland from the coast of Oregon. The aftermath of the strongest hurricanes can reach over 1,000 miles inland.

The North Pacific Gyre is a larger system that circulates warm water from the northern Pacific along the western U.S. coast and then west toward Asia, where it warms and helps create typhoons ...

Sausalito-based recovery ship KWAI collected over 96 tons of plastic materials from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after a month-long voyage.

Matthias Egger of The Ocean Cleanup inspects floating plastics he collected in collaboration with the “FloatEco” project during the 2018 expedition in the North Pacific Gyre. Coastal podded ...

The North Pacific Gyre is a larger system that circulates warm water from the northern Pacific along the western U.S. coast and then west toward Asia, where it warms and helps create typhoons ...

The North Pacific Gyre is a larger system that circulates warm water from the northern Pacific along the western U.S. coast and then west toward Asia, where it warms and helps create typhoons ...

In the subtropical gyre of the North Pacific Ocean, home to the North Pacific Garbage Patch – better known as the "plastic continent" – the concentration of small-sized plastic debris has ...

Relatively unknown global weather patterns can drive the hurricane season. What are the ITCZ, Central American Gyre and the ...

The North Pacific Gyre is a larger system that circulates warm water from the northern Pacific along the western U.S. coast and then west toward Asia, where it warms and helps create typhoons.

The North Pacific Gyre is a larger system that circulates warm water from the northern Pacific along the western U.S. coast and then west toward Asia, where it warms and helps create typhoons ...