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  "id": 16017654,
  "title": "Africa: What a Seawater Sample Can Tell Scientists About Ocean Health",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/africa-what-a-seawater-sample-can-tell-scientists-about-ocean-health",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-22T06:53:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AllAfrica Health",
    "slug": "allafrica-health",
    "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202610220106.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "[IPS] UNESCO is growing its environmental DNA, or eDNA, expedition programme. This ambitious and cost-effective project can give usable ocean data in a couple of weeks using a small number of seawater samples collected by citizen scientists.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}