Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean ...
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Plastic pollution is a significant issue in Hawaii, mainly due to its location in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre—a massive system of rotating ocean currents. This current system traps debris ...
It has formed due to the North Pacific Gyre (NPG), a system of ocean currents that traps debris within a swirling vortex. Covering an estimated 1.6 million square kilometres (617,763 square miles ...
Because of Hawai‘i’s location in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, ocean currents deliver to our shores plastic waste from around the world, and nearby is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.