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 North Pacific Gyre, or the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, spans over 500,000 square miles, or about twice the size of Texas, and contains everything from large debris to microplastics that have ...

A survey of plastic waste picked up in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre—aka the Giant Pacific Garbage Patch—has revealed that the garbage is providing a home to species that would otherwise ...

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 ...

Researchers find that tiny ocean plants react to nutrient and temperature shifts. In nutrient-poor zones, efficient ...

SAUSALITO, Calif. (KGO) -- Nearly every day cargo ships arrive here in the Bay Area, carrying everything from cars to consumer goods. But one ship that just docked in Sausalito is delivering cargo ...

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 ...

Neocalanus robustior) and secondary copepod consumers (Pleuromamma xiphias and Euchaeta rimana) varied little over a 5-10-yr period in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG; mean ± SD: 2.1 ±0.1 and ...

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 ...