AccuWeather says that the Central American Gyre could form around mid-May, potentially laying the groundwork for a tropical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...