Ocean An ocean is a body of saline water (咸水) that composes much of a planet’s hydrosphere (水圈). On Earth, an ocean is one of the major conventional divisions of the World Ocean. These are, in descending order by area, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern (Antarctic...
There are two garbage gyres in the Atlantic ocean. The larger of them is roughly central and northern in between the American SouthWest and Northern Africa. The smaller of the two is Southern, also centrally located in between South Brazil and the Southern African countries. The major contributor...
While the invention may do little to battle against fivegiant “garbage islands” that flow around the world’s major ocean gyres (环流),it could stop waste from leaving harbours and marinas, for example.Peter Ceglinski and Andrew Turton said theirdevice could spellthe end of polluted seas....
yet a speed-up of the subantarctic ACC is observed in response to greenhouse-gas forcing17. This contributes to build-up of heat in the subtropics, north of the ACC, connected to poleward-shifting large-scale ocean gyres that