Getty Images Early outlooks for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season suggest another above-average season is on the way, so any tropical development before June would likely only boost forecasters ...

The remote area of sea where the GPGP is located is surrounded by the North Pacific Gyre, a network of rotating ocean currents. These ensnare plastic and other debris that enters their flow ...

The Great Pacific garbage patch is an enormous collection of garbage, largely plastics, that has accumulated within the North Pacific Gyre. A gyre is a cyclical current of ocean water. The North ...

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.

The world’s oceans consist of five primary gyres, which are vast vortexes of water formed by converging ocean currents. The largest of these is the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG), also known as ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupies water between North America’s west coast and Japan. A system of swirling ocean currents called a gyre pulls trash into a couple of different patches ...

Inside this gyre, just north of Hawai’i, lies a long east-west strip where some of the debris in these currents has collected over the years. The eastern part of this is the Great Pacific ...

Trash and assorted garbage collected form the North Pacific Gyre. (Photo by: Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) First, ...

A new report shows the rapid increase of plastic pollution spreading across the world's oceans, jumping from an estimated 16 trillion pieces in 2005 to more than 171 trillion pieces of plastic today.