Articles related to "Ocean Gyres"

The Pacific Garbage Patch, that is about 1,000 miles west of San Francisco, is a plastic island of garbage nearly twice the size of Texas.

Scientists investigating ocean gyres - giant spinning eddies - are exposing the ways these rotating currents profoundly affect marine life and the planet's climate.

Huge quantities of plastic are accumulating in the middle of the world's oceans, like they have in the North Pacific Central Gyre, creating toxic plastic soups of trash.

Where does all the trash lost (or dumped) at sea go? Is there a garbage island or plastic continent, floating and growing as more and more trash piles upon it?