{"id":2861,"date":"2019-05-31T09:33:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T09:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","slug":"five-ways-in-which-disasters-worsen-air-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/31\/five-ways-in-which-disasters-worsen-air-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Ways In Which Disasters Worsen Air Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By UN Environment<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the World Health\nOrganization, every year, around 7 million people die prematurely from disease\ncaused by air pollution. That is 800 people every hour, or 13 every minute,\ndying because of the dirty air they breathe. Approximately, 4 million of these\ndeaths occur in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gar.unisdr.org\/\">Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2019<\/a>,\npublished earlier this month by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction,\nfurther exposes how threats such as air pollution, diseases, earthquakes,\ndrought and climate change combine and feed on each other to exacerbate their impact\non human health and the environment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/five-ways-which-disasters-worsen-air-pollution\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment According to the World Health Organization, every year, around 7 million people die prematurely from disease caused by air pollution. That is 800 people every hour, or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}