{"id":6625,"date":"2019-02-27T17:01:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6625"},"modified":"2019-03-25T20:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T00:05:01","slug":"creatures-of-the-deepest-deep-eating-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/creatures-of-the-deepest-deep-eating-microplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Creatures of the (deepest) deep eating microplastics  <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rsos.180667\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Royal Society Open Science<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0February 27, 2019 17:01 ET<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/press.royalsociety.org\/thePressRelease.aspx?id=19575\" target=\"_blank\">Brief<\/a> from the Royal Society)<br \/>\nResearchers found that marine animals living in the six deepest parts of the ocean ingest man-made plastic fibres and synthetic particles. The results challenge the idea that the deep oceans are free\u00a0from human impacts and man-made debris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lead author:<\/strong> Alan Jamieson, Newcastle University &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:alan.jamieson@ncl.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">alan.jamieson@ncl.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Society Open Science Published\u00a0February 27, 2019 17:01 ET (Brief from the Royal Society) Researchers found that marine animals living in the six deepest parts of the ocean ingest man-made plastic fibres and synthetic particles. The results challenge the idea that the deep oceans are free\u00a0from human impacts and man-made debris. Lead author: Alan Jamieson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"class_list":["post-6625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1IR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6628,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions\/6628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}