Studies estimate there are now 15–51 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's oceans — from the equator to the poles ... Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the ...

See the map Since countries are free to ... Kiribati straddles the equator and is located in the central Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between Hawaii and Australia, northeast of the Solomon ...

Studies estimate there are now 15–51 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's oceans — from the equator to the poles ... Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the north-central Pacific Ocean. It’s the ...

A thin stretch of the eastern Pacific ... Pacific Ocean,” Seager told Newsweek. “Because of the rotation of the Earth, the winds drive waters northward to the north of the Equator and ...

South America is in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, with the Equator running directly through the continent. The Tropic of Capricorn also runs through South America. The Pacific Ocean ...