An estimated 100,000 tons of floating plastic polluting 620,000 square miles of the Pacific is at risk of infecting the food ...

A new study has revealed significant acceleration in the upper-ocean circulation of the equatorial Pacific over the past 30 ...

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui by the locals, is a remote island off the coast of Chile. As of 2023, its population ...

When we started out, our intention was to tell the story of five incredible oceans, each with their own character and their ...

The waves were generated by an offshore storm related to an atmospheric river that hit the Pacific Northwest over the weekend ...

Much of the debris that ends up in the North Pacific Ocean gets drawn into the North Pacific Gyre by currents. The North Pacific Gyre is a swirling vortex of water made up of four prevailing ...

The researchers collaborated with the Ocean Voyages Institute ... a gyre - an area where circulating currents cause floating debris to accumulate - in the Pacific. Lead researcher Dr Linsey ...

In 72 hours, Tropical Storm Nadine made landfall in Belize, dissolved over Mexico and then organized again to strengthen into Hurricane Kristy.

We found deep extreme temperature events linked to eddies are seen more often in major ocean boundary currents, such as the East Australian and Kuroshio currents in the Pacific and the Gulf Stream ...

The habitat model showed a band of favorable habitat open up across the region where the North Pacific subtropical and subpolar gyres (large ocean currents) meet, which was the most continuous ...