All five gyres are large systems of circular ocean currents which accumulate floating objects including plastics, [but] the North Pacific Gyre is the most-researched of the oceanic gyres ...

Ocean plastic accumulates in five patches ... the area of a football field every five seconds and removes foreign objects from the water without harming marine life. The Independent is the ...

The scientists said that the findings suggest plastic pollution in the ocean might be enabling the creation of new floating ecosystems ... were able to colonize new objects once they were in ...

Converging currents at the surface of the ocean create some of the best places ... These often contain the highest concentration of small objects floating in the water. Photograph by David ...

The researchers fed this data into a computer model of how objects move ... plastic is entering the ocean each year and how much total plastic pollution there is floating on the sea surface.

Sound doesn’t just help us hear music or communicate underwater—it can also be used to move objects without physically ...

Imagine hopping onto a large floatie in a lake or pool, and then trying to move. We’ve all been there—without paddling limbs, wind-catching sails, or a propelling engine, you’re stuck.

But the other objects were downed over water or sparsely ... as well as some wiring that was floating on the ocean surface. But most of the electronics were in the balloon payload, carried underneath.