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 ...

Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe.

Investments supported by the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ...