{"id":4308,"date":"2015-09-01T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T18:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2015-09-02T14:41:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:41:34","slug":"a-new-silent-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/a-new-silent-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"A new &#8220;silent spring&#8221;<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">An editorial is calling the dumping of plastic waste into the ocean a new \u201csilent spring\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSilent spring\u201d was a book written in the 1960s outlining the harmful effects of the overuse of pesticides on the environment. It was instrumental in raising public awareness of the potential dangers of pesticides.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The authors of the paper believe that plastic pollution in the ocean is not perceived as a major pollutant, but that it should be. The author believes that 1.8 million tons of plastic is discharged into the oceans every 2.2 days. Additionally the author explains that today 90 per cent of seabirds have plastic in their digestive system, while in the 1970s and 80s only ten per cent of seabirds were affected.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1502108112\" target=\"_blank\"> related paper<\/a> researchers estimate that 99 per cent of seabirds will have ingested plastic by 2050.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1513514112\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in<em> PNAS <\/em>on <strong>August 31<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Boris Worm, Biology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An editorial is calling the dumping of plastic waste into the ocean a new \u201csilent spring\u201d. \u201cSilent spring\u201d was a book written in the 1960s outlining the harmful effects of the overuse of pesticides on the environment. It was instrumental in raising public awareness of the potential dangers of pesticides. The authors of the paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,114,1445,215,1287,2452,1286],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-birds","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-nova-scotia","tag-plastic","tag-pollution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-17u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4309,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions\/4309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}