{"601394":{"#nid":"601394","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"We\u0027re Poisoning Coral Reefs With Plastic","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoral reefs didn\u0026rsquo;t need more bad news. They\u0026rsquo;re already being cooked by climate change and mangled by fishing gear. But because this is the age of humans, they are also being poisoned by billions of bits of plastic. Yet \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/cobb-dr-kim\u0022\u003EKim Cobb\u003C\/a\u003E of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E feels hopeful. We already know the solutions\u0026nbsp;\u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;developing better waste management systems, shifting our consumption habits away from disposable items, and picking up more plastic. All we have to do is implement them. \u0026ldquo;This is an optimistic message because this is something we can go out and through concerted effort try to fix,\u0026rdquo; Cobb told Earther. \u0026ldquo;In the face of other challenges like rising ocean temperatures, this can turn into a feel good story.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34651","created_gmt":"2018-01-26 14:52:03","changed_gmt":"2018-01-26 18:54:07","author":"mrosten3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"gammaCore NVNS device","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/earther.com\/were-poisoning-coral-reefs-with-plastic-1822408782","dateline":{"date":"2018-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-01-25T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"587899":{"id":"587899","type":"image","title":"Kim Cobb","body":null,"created":"1487947305","gmt_created":"2017-02-24 14:41:45","changed":"1501531001","gmt_changed":"2017-07-31 19:56:41","alt":"Kim Cobb","file":{"fid":"226379","name":"KimCobb_aug16_small.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KimCobb_aug16_small.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/KimCobb_aug16_small.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":506095,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/KimCobb_aug16_small.jpg?itok=2mqqPd2c"}}},"media_ids":["587899"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"33791","name":"kim cobb"},{"id":"14760","name":"coral reef"},{"id":"807","name":"environment"},{"id":"5275","name":"plastics"},{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}