These currents trap and concentrate debris within the gyre. Comprising most of the northern Pacific Ocean, the North Pacific ... nets and lines, another type of marine debris, can entangle and ...

There is a two million square mile sea with no land borders that is surrounded by just one ocean. The Sargasso Sea is a ...

Churning currents in the molten rocks below ... like the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean, the deepest point on Earth. These types of collisions can also lead to underwater volcanoes ...

An emperor penguin surprised locals when it appeared on a beach in Australia after making an epic journey of thousands of ...

Circular ocean currents, called “eddies,” play an important role in supplying nutrients for marine life and can stimulate ...

City lights, fires, effects of pollution, auroras, sand and dust storms, snow cover, ice mapping, boundaries of ocean currents, energy flows, etc., are other types of environmental information ...

The Arctic is warming at three to four times the global average. However, new research suggests the slowing of a key ocean current could reduce projected Arctic warming by up to 2 degrees Celsius by ...

Jellyfish are known for drifting to and fro at the whim of ocean currents—but not all species ... these jellyfish use a type of jet propulsion to follow the sunlight until they nearly reach ...

and discovered a type of ocean current The seas served up some compelling headlines this year, from celebrity fashion to solving the mystery of the melting starfish A floating pier installed off ...

Ocean Beach visitors in Denmark, Australia received the surprise of a lifetime when an emperor penguin traveled nearly 2,200 ...

Stings are not usually fatal but can provoke an allergic-type reaction in some cases ... the size of a Cornish pasty with ...

City lights, fires, effects of pollution, auroras, sand and dust storms, snow cover, ice mapping, boundaries of ocean currents, energy flows, etc., are other types of environmental information ...