Science news articles about 'pacific gyre'

An international oceanographic research expedition to the middle of the South Pacific Gyre – a site that is as far from continents as it is possible to go on Earth's surface – found so few organisms ...

... a pattern of current that he named the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. Recent satellite data suggest ... the past few decades. "Although the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation is part of a natural cycle ...

... bet that they're feeding on something. The presence of the longline fishery in the South Pacific Gyre may be one of the reasons for the steep decline of the leatherbacks, according to Shillinger. ...

Oceanographers have found so few organisms beneath the seafloor that it may be the least inhabited sediment ever explored for evidence of life.