In the ocean, a haze made from tiny bits of dead plants, animals, and microbes hangs in the upper reaches of the water. Each particle is just a fraction of a micrometer across, but together the carbon ...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch has long been described in terms of scale. In the waters between Hawaii and California, ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 66, No. 9 (September 2021), pp. 3255-3270 (16 pages) Sinking particulate organic matter controls the flux of carbon (C) from the surface ocean to the deep sea.

It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s becoming something else. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where no ...

Floating derelict fishing gear (DFG) has been polluting the marine environment for decades. The Hawaiian archipelago, in the center of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, is exposed to high levels of ...