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How one Bay Area team is responding to increasing threat of plastic pollution to world's oceans

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's a startling reminder, often hidden from our collective view. A cargo hold full of debris and plastic plucked from a floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean known as the ...
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This graphic of the North Pacific subpolar gyre in the Gulf of Alaska shows how the strength of the gyre can speed or slow ocean acidification based on the amount of carbon ...

This graphic of the North Pacific subpolar gyre in the Gulf of Alaska shows how the strength of the gyre can speed or slow ocean acidification based on the amount of carbon dioxide brought to the ...
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Bay Area ship voyage recovers 96 tons of plastic from Pacific ocean

SAUSALITO, Calif. (KGO) -- Nearly every day cargo ships arrive here in the Bay Area, carrying everything from cars to consumer goods. But one ship that just docked in Sausalito is delivering cargo ...
JSTOR Daily

Cyclonic eddies modulate temporal and spatial decoupling of particulate carbon, nitrogen, and biogenic silica export in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 66, No. 9 (September 2021), pp. 3508-3522 (15 pages) Mesoscale eddies may enhance nutrient injection into the photic zone and ultimately the magnitude and composition ...
Science Daily

Small eddies play a big role in feeding ocean microbes

Researchers have found that eddies at the edges of subtropical ocean gyres deliver nutrients that sustain the phytoplankton within the gyres. The findings answer a longstanding question about how ...
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First observational evidence of beaufort gyre stabilization, which could be precursor to huge freshwater release

Woods Hole, Mass. (Monday, May 8, 2023) - A new study provides the first observational evidence of the stabilization of the anti-cyclonic Beaufort Gyre, which is the dominant circulation of the Canada ...