{"id":331539,"date":"2025-12-23T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331539\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:59:09","slug":"fiddler-crabs-break-down-microplastics-exeter-university-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/331539\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiddler crabs break down microplastics &#8211; Exeter University study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The university said the research was led by Professor Jos\u00e9 M. Riascos, with other institutions including Universidad de Antioquia in Turbo and Medellin, the University of Exeter, and the Corporation Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences (CEMarin) in Bogot\u00e1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said the Gulf of Urab\u00e1, where the study took place, had some of the highest levels of plastic contamination reported anywhere in the world. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite this, fiddler crab populations are thriving in the area, raising the question of how these creatures tolerate such high levels of plastic waste,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said researches sampled a total of 95 crabs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The university said the research was led by Professor Jos\u00e9 M. Riascos, with other institutions including Universidad de&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-331539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}