Volunteers were on the lookout. New report exposes invisible threat found lurking in US national parks: 'Even in landscapes that appeared untouched' first appeared on The Cool Down.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an enormous agglomeration of plastic waste floating in the world's largest ocean, but it's not the only one and now scientists are trying to work out how to clean ...

Subtropical gyres exhibit unique patterns of upwelling, often driven by intricate interactions between ocean currents, wind, and geological features. The Coriolis effect, a result of Earth’s rotation, ...

The Dutch nonprofit group Ocean Cleanup hauled almost 64,000 pounds of plastic out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch after two and a half months of testing the latest iteration of its collection ...

March 2 (UPI) --What are the odds that a piece of plastic blown into the surf end up into one of Earth's open-ocean garbage patches? Scientists in Germany and the United States have developed a new ...

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Figure 1: Nitrogen and phosphorus budgets for the five ocean gyres. Figure 3: Lateral supply and uptake of allochthonous DON and DOP. Figure 4: Seasonal new nutrient fluxes at the BATS and HOT ...

The 5 Gyres Institute is starting its annual initiative to track amounts of trash in National Parks. Any visitor to national parks can help by recording data about the trash they see in any U.S. park ...

It's not quite hurricane season yet, but AccuWeather is already sounding the alarm bells as it warns we could be seeing the signs of a tropical storm that could spin up later this month. The Central ...

Figure 1: A single-molecule FRET approach to assess the DNA wrapping of nucleosomes. Here we set out to define the CENP-A–nucleosome structural transition resulting in an altered path of nucleosomal ...