{"id":678961,"date":"2021-01-22T05:19:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T09:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678961"},"modified":"2021-01-22T05:19:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T09:19:45","slug":"combined-river-flows-could-send-up-to-3-billion-microplastics-a-day-into-the-bay-of-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678961","title":{"rendered":"Combined river flows could send up to 3 billion microplastics a day into the Bay of Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ganges River\u2014with the combined flows of the Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers\u2014could be responsible for up to 3 billion microplastic particles entering the Bay of Bengal every day, according to new research.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-01-combined-river-billion-microplastics-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Combined river flows could send up to 3 billion microplastics a day into the Bay of Bengal<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ganges River\u2014with the combined flows of the Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers\u2014could be responsible for up to 3 billion microplastic particles entering the Bay of Bengal every day, according to&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-678961","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\/678961","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=678961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678961\/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=678961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}