But the Pacific gyre, where three major ocean currents converge, acts like a giant whirlpool that can trap such debris, creating the ecological nightmare that is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Fungi have been recognized as potential allies in the fight against plastic pollution for a while now. These microorganisms ...

For the past 35 years, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current ... show just how these garbage gyres form.

Ocean Voyages Institute Ocean Voyages Institute ... Convergence Zone (more commonly known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or Gyre). The Pacific Gyre, located halfway between Hawaii and ...

Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean.

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

But don't let the name "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" fool you. It doesn't look like a giant mountain of trash at all. It's actually scattered over a region of ocean that's twice the size of Texas ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

Eventually, most of it ends up in one of five known major swirling patches of garbage ... ocean current. In this visualization, they use the data from these buoys to show just how these garbage ...