{"id":37036,"date":"2025-03-26T12:06:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/microplastics-and-pesticides-aiding-death-of-sea-stars-in-washington-state-study\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:06:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:06:45","slug":"microplastics-and-pesticides-aiding-death-of-sea-stars-in-washington-state-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/microplastics-and-pesticides-aiding-death-of-sea-stars-in-washington-state-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Microplastics and pesticides aiding death of sea stars in Washington state \u2013 study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers looking at mass sunflower sea star die off in Puget Sound found the two impacted growth of young ones<\/p>\n<p>Microplastics and a widely used pesticide are helping kill off sea star populations in Washington state\u2019s Puget Sound, new research shows.<\/p>\n<p>The findings come as researchers look into what has caused a mass sunflower sea star die off in the region. Though it\u2019s not yet clear whether the toxic substances are at the die off\u2019s root, the study found that microplastics and the pesticide have detrimental impacts on young sea stars, which could prevent the population from rebounding.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/26\/microplastics-pesticides-sea-stars-washington-state\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers looking at mass sunflower sea star die off in Puget Sound found the two impacted growth of young ones Microplastics and a widely used pesticide are helping kill off sea star populations in Washington state\u2019s Puget Sound, new research shows. The findings come as researchers look into what has caused a mass sunflower sea &#8230; <a title=\"Microplastics and pesticides aiding death of sea stars in Washington state \u2013 study\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/microplastics-and-pesticides-aiding-death-of-sea-stars-in-washington-state-study\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Microplastics and pesticides aiding death of sea stars in Washington state \u2013 study\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}