{"id":618019,"date":"2019-05-22T08:03:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=618019"},"modified":"2019-05-22T08:03:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:03:10","slug":"project-to-gather-detailed-data-on-microplastics-starts-with-pacific-ocean-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=618019","title":{"rendered":"Project to gather detailed data on microplastics starts with Pacific Ocean expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of tonnes of plastic waste are transported by rivers, by wind and in waste water into the sea, where the plastic remains. &#8220;To date, there are no detailed data on where plastic accumulates and how much,&#8221; says UFZ environmental chemist, Dr. Annika Jahnke. Previous estimates rely on computer modelling, individual data and observations from the air. &#8220;We want to provide substantiation for these estimates and to find out what happens to the plastic in the ocean and which effects microplastic has on the environment,&#8221; Jahnke explains.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-microplastics-pacific-ocean.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Project to gather detailed data on microplastics starts with Pacific Ocean expedition<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of tonnes of plastic waste are transported by rivers, by wind and in waste water into the sea, where the plastic remains. &#8220;To date, there are no detailed data&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}