Lavers said Henderson Island is at the edge of a vortex of ocean currents known as the South Pacific gyre, which tends to capture and hold floating trash. "The quantity of plastic there is truly ...

He found that the waters in the South Pacific Gyre—a remote location that begins some 3,800 miles east of Latin America—are currently choked with plastic. That our waste has such a strong ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international oceanographic research expedition to the middle of the South Pacific Gyre - a site that is as far from continents as it is possible to go on Earth's surface ...

Point Nemo is known as a marine desert, thanks to the South Pacific Gyre, a large system of ocean currents. That system prevents most land-based marine nutrients from entering the area.

AccuWeather says that the Central American Gyre could form around mid-May, potentially laying the groundwork for a tropical ...

This is largely due to its location in the South Pacific Gyre, which brings in trash from Australia, South America and fishing vessels. "The microplastic we find on the coasts isn't ours," said ...

This is the best chance so far this year for the first named tropical storm of 2025 to develop, both in the Caribbean and in the eastern Pacific ... enough south to initialize the gyre and ...

The Central American Gyre is the name of a broad area of slow-spinning low pressure that forms seasonally over the eastern Pacific Ocean ... Cuba and sometimes even South Florida, according ...