SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's a startling reminder, often hidden from our collective view. A cargo hold full of debris and plastic plucked from a floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean known as ...

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 ... would track northeastward but veer toward ...

Cold water reaches that far south because of the North Pacific Gyre, a large rotating system with smaller rotating systems within it. One of those smaller systems is the California Current.

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. It’s defined by ...

THE OCEAN CLEANUP HANDOUT / EPA / MAXPPP Like a chunky soup. In the subtropical gyre of the North Pacific Ocean, home to the North Pacific Garbage Patch – better known as the "plastic continent ...

In a part of the ocean known as the North Pacific Gyre, human-produced plastic has increased 100-fold over the past 40 years, according to a new study. This is the infamous Great Pacific Garbage ...