{"id":706418,"date":"2021-10-27T12:21:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T16:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=706418"},"modified":"2021-10-27T12:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T16:21:20","slug":"twenty-four-trillion-pieces-of-microplastics-in-the-ocean-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=706418","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-four trillion pieces of microplastics in the ocean and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a total of 8,218 pelagic microplastic samples from the world&#8217;s oceans collected between 2000 and 2019, a team of scientists has developed a publicly available dataset for assessing the abundance of microplastics and their long-term trend in the world&#8217;s upper oceans. The team found 24.4 trillion pieces (82,000&#8211;578,000 tons) of microplastics in the world&#8217;s oceans, but the actual amount is likely to be much greater.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2021\/10\/211027122120.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Twenty-four trillion pieces of microplastics in the ocean and counting<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a total of 8,218 pelagic microplastic samples from the world&#8217;s oceans collected between 2000 and 2019, a team of scientists has developed a publicly available dataset for assessing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706418","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=706418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706418\/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=706418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}