The Ocean Cleanup is fighting against this accumulation. In 2024, the foundation removed 11.5 million kilos of garbage from the world’s oceans and rivers. They even put a price tag on cleaning up the ...

The NWS warns that sneaker waves can reach much further up beaches and over rocks and jetties than expected. These waves can ...

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 ...

Deep beneath the drift currents of the North Pacific Ocean, where waves are slumbering in silent tranquillity, there are fish that gaze upwards through their giant, glassy eyes that resemble ...

This current plays a critical role in Earth’s climate system by: ・Regulating global ocean temperatures by connecting the Atlantic, Pacific ... is spreading farther north before sinking.

These have strong, warm, polewards flows concentrated in the western edges of each ocean. For example: Gulf Stream in the north-west Atlantic Kuroshio Current in the north-west Pacific Agulhas ...