Much of the debris that ends up in the North Pacific Ocean gets drawn into the North Pacific Gyre by currents. The North Pacific Gyre is a swirling vortex of water made up of four prevailing ...

As a result, marine heat waves are arriving more frequently—especially off Australia's east coast, Tasmania, the northeast ...

For decades, scientists have known about “equatorial waters”—masses of ocean that separate waters north and south of the equator—in both the Pacific and Indian oceans. But a similar mass ...

Waste accumulates in five ocean areas, the largest being ... used boats and planes to map this area of the North Pacific, where rotating currents and winds cause marine debris, including plastic ...

These have strong, warm, polewards flows concentrated in the western edges of each ocean. For example: Gulf Stream in the north-west Atlantic Kuroshio Current in the north-west Pacific Agulhas ...