{"id":29784,"date":"2021-03-15T21:27:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/mar\/15\/sandstorm-and-pollution-turn-beijing-sky-orange-video"},"modified":"2021-03-15T21:27:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:27:09","slug":"sandstorm-and-pollution-turn-beijing-sky-orange-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29784","title":{"rendered":"Sandstorm and pollution turn Beijing sky orange \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sandstorm has combined with already high air pollution to turn the sky over Beijing an eerie orange. Air quality indexes recorded a \u201chazardous\u201d 999 rating on Monday as commuters travelled to work through the thick, dark air across China\u2019s capital and further west. Large-scale deforestation is considered a factor in the spring dust storms that are relatively common at this time of year and are usually attributed to winds blowing across the Gobi desert<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/mar\/15\/beijing-skies-turn-orange-as-sandstorm-and-pollution-send-readings-off-the-scale\">Beijing skies turn orange as sandstorm and pollution send readings off the scale<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/mar\/15\/sandstorm-and-pollution-turn-beijing-sky-orange-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sandstorm has combined with already high air pollution to turn the sky over Beijing an eerie orange. Air quality indexes recorded a \u201chazardous\u201d 999 rating on Monday as commuters travelled to work through the thick, dark air across China\u2019s capital and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722,41,50,65,466,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-environment","category-pollution","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29785,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29784\/revisions\/29785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}