{"id":129146,"date":"2024-03-21T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/ocean-plastic-pollution-has-become-a-global-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:00:55","slug":"ocean-plastic-pollution-has-become-a-global-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/ocean-plastic-pollution-has-become-a-global-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean plastic pollution has become a global crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129146\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Ocean plastic pollution is a dire environmental crisis, with millions of tons of plastic waste annually entering our oceans via rivers, wind, and direct inputs from activities such as shipping and fishing. Consequently, this relentless influx poses a substantial threat to the ocean ecosystem, and the full consequences remain largely unknown. Professor Annika Jahnke, an environmental chemist at UFZ and coordinator of the MICRO-FATE project, highlighted the gravity of this situation.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the expedition was to tackle key questions about ocean plastics. The team sought to understand their distribution and identify the most impacted areas. Additionally, the experts analyzed the characteristics of plastics, comparing those near their sources to those found in the open ocean. Accordingly, the researchers chose locations with varying predicted plastic loads to explore. This approach enabled the study of both the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and lesser-known open ocean areas. Notably, samples were taken from the Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea Marine National Monument, a marine reserve northwest of Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>The analysis revealed a troubling truth: plastics saturate both known accumulation zones and the broader ocean. This includes even distant protected regions. Contrary to expectations, high microplastic levels were found even where lower concentrations were predicted. This suggests a widespread distribution impacting the entire marine ecosystem. The insights from the MICRO-FATE expedition underscore the urgent need for comprehensive global action against plastic pollution. As the scientific community continues to unveil the scale of the problem, it becomes increasingly clear that solving the issue of ocean plastics will require concerted efforts across nations, industries, and individuals to rethink our relationship with plastic and prioritize the health of our oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/ocean-plastic-pollution-has-become-a-global-crisis\/\">Earth.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/1-498\/\">Ocean plastic pollution has become a global crisis<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,1129,759],"class_list":["post-129146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-ocean","tag-plastic-pollution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}