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

Approximately 3,100 Japanese troops and 50 aircraft will join the exercise, scheduled to run through Aug. 4, according to a ...

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.

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.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch isn’t just a floating trash pile There are roughly 171 trillion pieces of plastic lurking in the world's oceans. By RJ Mackenzie Published Apr 13, 2025 8:00 AM EDT ...

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 ...

Around 7,000 humpback whales in the North Pacific Ocean may have starved to death following the disastrous effects of a marine heat wave, a new study reveals.

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.