{"id":692928,"date":"2021-06-10T16:27:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T20:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692928"},"modified":"2021-06-10T16:27:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T20:27:05","slug":"ocean-microplastics-first-global-view-shows-seasonal-changes-and-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692928","title":{"rendered":"Ocean microplastics: First global view shows seasonal changes and sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 8 million tons of plastic trash enters the ocean each year, and most of it is battered by sun and waves into microplastics\u2014tiny flecks that can ride currents hundreds or thousands of miles from their point of entry.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-06-ocean-microplastics-global-view-seasonal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Ocean microplastics: First global view shows seasonal changes and sources<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 8 million tons of plastic trash enters the ocean each year, and most of it is battered by sun and waves into microplastics\u2014tiny flecks that can ride currents&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-692928","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\/692928","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=692928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692928\/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=692928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}