{"id":3886,"date":"2025-08-10T06:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/08\/10\/new-study-highlights-grave-growing-danger-of-plastic-pollution-to-worlds-health\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T06:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:24:22","slug":"new-study-highlights-grave-growing-danger-of-plastic-pollution-to-worlds-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/08\/10\/new-study-highlights-grave-growing-danger-of-plastic-pollution-to-worlds-health\/","title":{"rendered":"New study highlights &lsquo;grave, growing&rsquo; danger of plastic pollution to world&rsquo;s health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Geneva, negotiators from 175 nations are trying to hammer out the first-ever legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. The urgency of the talks was underscored this week by a new study published in The Lancet. It calls plastics a \u201cgrave, growing and under-recognized danger to human and planetary health.\u201d John Yang speaks with Tracey Woodruff, one of the study\u2019s authors, to learn more.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Geneva, negotiators from 175 nations are trying to hammer out the first-ever legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. The urgency of the talks was underscored this week by a new study published in The Lancet. It calls plastics a \u201cgrave, growing and under-recognized danger to human and planetary health.\u201d John Yang speaks with Tracey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}