{"id":60685,"date":"2023-12-21T22:05:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T13:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/dec\/21\/pakistan-uses-artificial-rain-in-attempt-to-cut-pollution-levels"},"modified":"2023-12-21T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T13:05:04","slug":"pakistan-uses-artificial-rain-in-attempt-to-cut-pollution-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60685","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan uses artificial rain in attempt to cut pollution levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud seeding improves air quality in city of Lahore but experts say practice is not a sustainable solution<\/p>\n<p>Artificial rain has been used in an attempt to lower pollution levels in Lahore, Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The capital city of the eastern province of Punjab, near the Indian border, has some of the worst air quality in the world and has become extremely polluted because of a growing population of more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.gov.pk\/sites\/default\/files\/population\/2023\/Punjab.pdf\">13<\/a> million people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/dec\/21\/pakistan-uses-artificial-rain-in-attempt-to-cut-pollution-levels\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud seeding improves air quality in city of Lahore but experts say practice is not a sustainable solutionArtificial rain has been used in an attempt to lower pollution levels in Lahore, Pakistan.The capital city of the eastern province of Punjab, nea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3912,"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":[722,65,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-environment","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/60685","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\/3912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60686,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60685\/revisions\/60686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}