The United States. Australia, India and Japan have agreed to expand their cooperation on maritime security in the ...

A recent study has established a predictive framework for identifying the source populations of Chondria tumulosa, a ...

Saharan Dust over portions of Florida is keeping skies hazy. It's also helping inhibit the development of any tropical systems.

An expert says there is pushback from environmental groups when it comes to cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Tropical wave 2: A tropical wave is east of the Lesser Antilles, extending from 06N to 17N with axis near 57W, moving west ...

The Central American Gyre is the name of a broad area of slow-spinning low pressure that forms seasonally over the eastern Pacific Ocean and overlapping with the western Caribbean Sea.

As far back as 1973, seafarers traveling through the North Pacific Ocean noticed an unusually high number of man-made objects. ... slowly turning vortexes within the gyre draw in the debris.

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 ...

The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) project has announced the timeline and cost it would take to get the Great Pacific Garbage Patch cleaned up once and for all, using existing technology – 10 years and 7.5 ...

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 ...

There are five main oceanic gyres, and the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre is where the best-known garbage patch lies. Unlike all other seas, the Sargasso has no land boundaries.