An estimated 100,000 tons of floating plastic polluting 620,000 square miles of the Pacific is at risk of infecting the food ...
Over the next century, the Arctic will change and look much different than it does today. Just how different is still unknown ...
Long-range computer forecasts are in much better agreement that a disturbance, tropical depression, or perhaps Tropical Storm ...
Its impacts have widespread, however. The gyre can help fuel tropical cyclone development in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and even the eastern Pacific. What else is happening in the Gulf of Mexico?
A hermit crab trundles across a beach in Japan's Okinawa, carrying its home on its back: not a shell, but a disintegrating ...
A 2023 study found coastal species living on 70 percent of samples collected from the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, an ocean current that is also a concentrated site of debris including plastic.