{"id":4517,"date":"2021-05-09T13:55:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T13:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2021-05-09T13:55:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T13:55:21","slug":"deep-sea-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/deep-sea-microplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Sea Microplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seafloor microplastics are controlled by deep sea currents according to a new report published in the journal Science. This study shows how deep-sea currents act as conveyor belts, transporting tiny plastic fragments and fibres across the seafloor. These currents can concentrate microplastics within huge sediment accumulations, which the authors of the research term \u2018microplastic hotspots\u2019. These hotspots appear to be the deep-sea equivalents of the so-called \u2018garbage patches\u2019 formed by currents on the ocean surface.<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link to read more about Seafloor <a href=\"https:\/\/noc.ac.uk\/news\/seafloor-microplastic-hotspots-controlled-deep-sea-currents\">Microplastic Hot Spots.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seafloor microplastics are controlled by deep sea currents according to a new report published in the journal Science. This study shows how deep-sea currents act as conveyor belts, transporting tiny plastic fragments and fibres across the seafloor. These currents can concentrate microplastics within huge sediment accumulations, which the authors of the research term \u2018microplastic hotspots\u2019. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4520,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsulapartnership.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}