{"id":4089,"date":"2026-10-19T09:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2026-10-19T09:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:48:35","slug":"the-hazards-of-marine-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/the-hazards-of-marine-microplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hazards of Marine Microplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A recent study comparing data on marine microplastics and public health from 12 coastal countries over the past two decades has confirmed for the first time that people living within 10 kilometers of the coast have significantly higher incidence rates of five types of cancer\u2014lung, liver, thyroid, breast, and colon cancer\u2014than inland residents. Marine microplastics accumulate toxic additives, heavy metals, and persistent organic pollutants, which can enter the human body through the consumption of seafood, the ingestion of sea salt, or the inhalation of coastal dust. Long-term accumulation of these substances can induce cellular carcinogenesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study comparing data on marine microplastics and public health from 12 coastal countries over the past two decades has confirmed for the first time that people living within 10 kilometers of the coast have significantly higher incidence rates of five types of cancer\u2014lung, liver, thyroid, breast, and colon cancer\u2014than inland residents. Marine microplastics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-survival"],"views":20,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4091,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}