{"id":132643,"date":"2024-07-26T07:54:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T04:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/scientists-find-traces-of-cocaine-in-sharks-caught-off-the-coast-of-brazil-how-did-it-get-there\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T07:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T04:54:29","slug":"scientists-find-traces-of-cocaine-in-sharks-caught-off-the-coast-of-brazil-how-did-it-get-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/scientists-find-traces-of-cocaine-in-sharks-caught-off-the-coast-of-brazil-how-did-it-get-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find traces of cocaine in sharks caught off the coast of Brazil. How did it get there?"},"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\/132643\" \/>\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>Scientists have found traces of cocaine in wild sharks off the coast of Brazil. A study from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation found high levels of the drug in the tissue of these wild marine animals. Researchers tested 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks caught in the waters around Rio de Janeiro which they bought from fishers between September 2021 and August 2023.<\/p>\n<p>This species, listed as vulnerable by IUCN, was selected for testing as its habitat close to the coast means it is exposed to contaminated discharges. Scientists believe Brazilian sharpnose sharks could be a sentinel species for this type of pollution. All of the sharks tested positive for cocaine, with the drug and its main metabolite benzoylecgonine found in the muscle tissue and livers of the animals. The concentration of the drug was up to 100 times higher than previously observed in other marine life.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, is the first to find cocaine in wild sharks. Researchers say the findings \u201cpoint to the potential impacts of the presence of illicit drugs in environments\u201d. Regardless of where exactly it came from, cocaine only persists for a short while in the environment meaning for researchers to find it in animals like this, a lot of the drug has to be entering the ocean. The study\u2019s authors say cocaine consumption has increased \u2018exponentially\u2019 in the last few decades. Brazilians are among the world\u2019s biggest consumers of cocaine and the biggest consumers of the drug in South America.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/07\/25\/scientists-find-traces-of-cocaine-in-sharks-caught-off-the-coast-of-brazil-how-did-it-get-\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/7-564\/\">Scientists find traces of cocaine in sharks caught off the coast of Brazil. How did it get there?<\/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":[1576,14904,575,6809],"class_list":["post-132643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-brazil","tag-cocaine","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-shark"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132643","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=132643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}