{"id":390727,"date":"2025-09-02T01:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/390727\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:57:15","slug":"alarming-levels-of-microparticle-pollution-in-itchen-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/390727\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarming levels of microparticle pollution in Itchen River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The study by Upper Itchen Restoration Community Interest Company and the University of Brighton found plastic and fibreglass particles in the river&#8217;s headwaters.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Citizen scientists and researchers detected microfibre and microparticle pollution at all sampled sites in spring 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dr Corina Ciocan, principal lecturer at the university, said: &#8220;Chalk streams like the Itchen are unique and often compared to rainforests for their biodiversity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Finding microfibres and even fibreglass fragments at every site we sampled is concerning, but it also gives us the evidence we need to act.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The next step is to identify the sources of this pollution and work with local partners to reduce it and mitigate the impacts.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ian Diver, a director of the UIR CIC, said: &#8220;These early results show that microparticle pollution is an issue we cannot ignore.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;There is currently no data on particle pollution in the Upper Itchen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This project changes that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The study by Upper Itchen Restoration Community Interest Company and the University of Brighton found plastic and fibreglass&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-390727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115132225741581355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}