but there are no photos of what the North Pacific Gyre actually looks like – which is to say, like regular ocean with tiny, nearly impossible-to-see bit of plastic. Tiny pieces of plastic float on the ...

Without satellite or aerial photos – the debris is too diffuse to be visualized ... plastic ingested by fish swimming at “intermediate” depths of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. They found that 9 ...

The trash collects in one area, known as the North Pacific Gyre, due to a clockwise trade ... Also, it's undetectable by overhead satellite photos because it's 80 percent plastic and therefore ...

Studying this data, along with satellite images, Di Lorenzo discovered a pattern of current that he named the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. Recent satellite data suggest that this current is ...

Studying this data, along with satellite images, Di Lorenzo discovered a pattern of current that he named the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. Recent satellite data suggest that this current is ...

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 ...

Debris collected from the North Pacific Gyre sits on the deck of the KWAI, a ship operated by Sausalito-based Ocean Voyages Institute, in Sausalito on Tuesday, July 26, 2022. (Alan Dep/Marin ...

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 ...