{"id":47717,"date":"2022-08-22T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T23:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/22\/plastic-has-made-it-to-the-bottom-of-fijis-rivers-our-environment-is-breaking-down"},"modified":"2022-08-22T08:45:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T23:45:35","slug":"plastic-has-made-it-to-the-bottom-of-fijis-rives-our-environment-is-breaking-down-andrew-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47717","title":{"rendered":"Plastic has made it to the bottom of Fiji\u2019s rives; our environment is breaking down | Andrew Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Pacific countries people lived in harmony with nature for centuries, now even river bed mussels are affected by the way we live<\/p>\n<p>As a marine biologist in Fiji I am used to seeing plastics in our waterways.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/16\/the-plastic-we-use-unthinkingly-every-day-is-killing-our-planet-and-slowly-but-surely-killing-us?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&amp;fbclid=IwAR2A1twLHbXGSPGY6qeLdMS6XZb_JSkmCmG2lT4sKu4807Wl97RuTuQKyzg\">written of plastics in the sand, sea and surf<\/a>, and researched the presence of plastics in fish. But my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publish.csiro.au\/mf\/MF21223\">latest piece of research<\/a> had me shocked.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/22\/plastic-has-made-it-to-the-bottom-of-fijis-rivers-our-environment-is-breaking-down\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Pacific countries people lived in harmony with nature for centuries, now even river bed mussels are affected by the way we liveAs a marine biologist in Fiji I am used to seeing plastics in our waterways.I\u2019ve written of plastics in the sand, sea and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1508,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,436,874,266,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-plastics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47718,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47717\/revisions\/47718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}