{"id":196845,"date":"2024-10-01T01:23:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T06:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/scientists-find-plastic-eating-fungus-feasting-on-great-pacific-garbage-patch"},"modified":"2024-10-01T01:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T06:23:59","slug":"scientists-find-plastic-eating-fungus-feasting-on-great-pacific-garbage-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/scientists-find-plastic-eating-fungus-feasting-on-great-pacific-garbage-patch","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-find-plastic-eating-fungus-feasting-on-great-pacific-garbage-patch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does nature have to do <em>everything<\/em> itself?<\/p>\n<p>An international cohort of marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash suspended in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as detailed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0048969724029668?via%3Dihub\" class=\"\">new study<\/a> published in the journal <em>Science of the Total Environment<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed <em>Parengyodontium album<\/em>, the fungus was discovered among the thin layers of other microbes that live in and around the floating plastic pile in the North Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does nature have to do everything itself? An international cohort of marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash suspended in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as detailed in a new study published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. Dubbed Parengyodontium album, the fungus was discovered among the thin layers of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}