An estimated 100,000 tons of floating plastic polluting 620,000 square miles of the Pacific is at risk of infecting the food ...

Celia Konowe is from Reston, Virginia, recently graduating from the University... July 7, 2020 Fishing nets and debris being removed from the North Pacific Gyre by ...

The great Pacific garbage patch is believed to have the size of the state of Texas In a part of the ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre, human-produced plastic has increased 100-fold over the ...

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 ...

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 ...