{"id":554,"date":"2020-08-08T15:47:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T15:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2020-08-08T15:47:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T15:47:34","slug":"south-asia-is-smothered-in-toxic-air-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/08\/south-asia-is-smothered-in-toxic-air-report-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"South Asia Is Smothered in Toxic Air, Report Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a country level, weighted by population, Bangladesh emerges as the most polluted country on average, closely followed by Pakistan and India, making South Asia an especially toxic region.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/new-report-outlines-air-pollution-measures-can-save-millions-lives\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>\u00a0from the United Nations Environment Program found that toxic air kills seven million people every year, with most of those deaths occurring in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>Another\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/environment\/files\/Danger_in_the_Air.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">recent report<\/a>\u00a0from Unicef found that poor air quality might be permanently damaging children\u2019s brains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/05\/world\/asia\/india-air-pollution.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a country level, weighted by population, Bangladesh emerges as the most polluted country on average, closely followed by Pakistan and India, making South Asia an especially toxic region. Last year, a\u00a0report\u00a0from the United Nations Environment Program found that toxic air kills seven million people every year, with most of those deaths occurring in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propectin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}