{"id":88007,"date":"2026-04-20T20:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88007"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:26:18","slug":"cocaine-pollution-in-rivers-and-lakes-may-disrupt-behaviour-of-salmon-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/20\/cocaine-pollution-in-rivers-and-lakes-may-disrupt-behaviour-of-salmon-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocaine pollution in rivers and lakes may disrupt behaviour of salmon, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA21jK40.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The findings of the Swedish study suggests the substances can affect where the fish go, what they eat, and how vulnerable they are to predators. Photograph: Westend61\/Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Traces of cocaine that pollute rivers and lakes may accumulate in the brains of salmon and disrupt their behaviour, according to researchers who warn of unknown consequences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/cocaine-pollution-in-rivers-and-lakes-may-disrupt-behaviour-of-salmon-study-finds\/ar-AA21kqVg?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69e68b006c244d14a19011e06f048ab2&amp;ei=42\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Traces of cocaine that pollute rivers and lakes may accumulate in the brains of salmon and disrupt their behaviour, according to researchers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/salmon.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88008,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88007\/revisions\/88008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}