These are known as the five gyres. For the past 35 years, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current. In this visualization ...

Photograph by David Doubilet The Sargasso Sea, part of the vast whirlpool known as the North Atlantic gyre, often has been described as an oceanic desert—and it would appear to be, if it weren ...

Without these ocean gyres to moderate temperatures, the Earth would be uninhabitable. In the last few decades, however, the oceans have undergone unprecedented warming. Currents have shifted.

Ocean gyres are vast systems of circulating ocean currents, driven primarily by wind patterns, Earth's rotation, and differences in water density. These oceanic currents are essential to the Earth ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...

In one of the planet's five great oceanic gyres, human made marine debris becomes trapped in a circular ocean current that stretches from the east coasts of North America to the west coasts of ...

They flow in circular loops or gyres. Gyres are spiral oceanic surface currents and are found in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The map below shows the pattern of currents across the ...

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution. The largest one has been dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic ...