{"id":562408,"date":"2026-05-02T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562408\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:50:08","slug":"sewage-having-alarming-impact-on-underwater-forests-in-uk-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/562408\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewage having &#8216;alarming&#8217; impact on underwater forests in UK rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sewage and agricultural pollution in rivers is having an &#8220;alarming&#8221; knock-on impact on marine life in underwater forests along the British coastline, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scientists found seagrass meadows affected by excessive nutrients in the water &#8211; caused by sewage, fertilisers, manure and industry wastewater &#8211; had far fewer and less variety of small invertebrates like crabs, shrimps and snails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People don&#8217;t want to swim in seas polluted by sewage,&#8221; said Dr Benjamin Jones from Project Seagrass, which carried out the research with Swansea University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But this is one of the first studies of its kind to show that some of those nutrient inputs&#8230; are having an impact on the animals too.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sewage and agricultural pollution in rivers is having an &#8220;alarming&#8221; knock-on impact on marine life in underwater forests&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-562408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562408","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=562408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}