{
  "id": 16103485,
  "title": "Microplastics in sediment could trace decades of human activity worldwide",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/microplastics-in-sediment-could-trace-decades-of-human-activity",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-22T20:20:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-microplastics-sediment-decades-human-worldwide.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In a review article recently published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Leicester (United Kingdom), report on how human activity has altered Earth's sediments over the decades.",
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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."
}