Ocean map points to garbage patch polluters. Wednesday, 3 September 2014 Anna Salleh ABC. The world's five major ocean gyres attract garbage - but where does it all come from? (Source: NOAA) ...

Spanish expedition maps trash in all five ocean collection zones for the first time and makes a discovery. A plastic bag floats in the water off the coast of Pulau Bunaken, Indonesia. Photograph ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is it? Using the map below, click ...

Marine plastic pollution is a global crisis, with 9 to 14 million metric tons of plastic entering the ocean every year. Tiny fragments called microplastics—ranging from 1 micron to 5 millimeters ...

Our new map of the world’s oceans redraws ocean boundaries according to science, rather than geopolitics. These current-driven boundaries show the true catchment areas of the garbage patches.

'Scratching' more than the ocean's surface to map global microplastic movement. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 04 / 250430141835.htm ...

In December, a consortium of 12 research institutions published some of the first numbers on global ocean plastic pollution. By their calculation, almost 300,000 tons of plastic swirl near the ...

In the PBS series, Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures, take a voyage to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, learn about why sharks are at risk, follow along with a gray whale as it navigates an ...

The 5 Gyres project studies ocean pollution -- and the group hopes to answer questions about what so much plastic in the surf means for the food on our plates.

Even without trash islands, gyres are typically nutrient poor (ie not a lot of snacks), yet help sustain some of the ocean’s top predator fish. The reason may lie in some of the gyre’s eddies.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the largest accumulation of plastic in the world. Just how big is it? Using the map below, click ...