Any potential tropical threat could be linked to a phenomenon known as the Central American Gyre ... system north into the Caribbean and developing a tropical low in the Pacific,” he said.

It’s easy to find striking images of the Great Pacific Garbage ... of sea where the GPGP is located is surrounded by the North Pacific Gyre, a network of rotating ocean currents.

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.

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 largest of these is the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG), also known as the North Pacific ... While the term “Garbage Patch” may conjure images of a large, solid island of trash, the reality ...

These are called gyres. The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG) is one such, located just north of the equator in the Pacific Ocean. It consists of the Kuroshio, North Pacific, California ...

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, the trash already out there is ...