More information: Seven years into the North Pacific Garbage Patch: legacy plastic fragments rising disproportionally faster than larger floating objects, Environmental Research Letters (2024 ...

Our ocean planet, with water covering more than 70 percent of its surface, is full of strange rhythms and gyres like the oscillation in the North Pacific.

Since the end of most commercial whaling in the 1970s and ’80s, humpback whales in the North Pacific had been recovering, reaching a peak population of about 33,000 in 2012.

Iron released from coal combustion and steel production is altering the ecosystem in a critical part of the North Pacific, a new study has found. About 39 percent of dissolved iron in the ...

A cleanup effort in Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument collected over 47 tons of debris that threaten wildlife in Hawaiian beaches.

The research, which draws from not-for-profit The Ocean Cleanup’s systematic surveys of the NPGP between 2015 and 2022, found an unexpected rise in mass concentration of plastic fragments that ...