{"id":10971,"date":"2017-05-02T22:26:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T02:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10971"},"modified":"2017-05-02T22:49:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T02:49:53","slug":"air-quality-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/05\/air-quality-awareness-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Quality Awareness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the State Climate Office of Georgia, this week is <a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NOAA\/\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)<\/a>&#8216;s Air Quality Awareness Week! Did you know that wildfires and smoke contain fine particulate matter that can cause serious cardiovascular and respiratory effects? When there&#8217;s smoke in the air, limit or suspend outdoor activity until you know the air quality is at a safer level. <a href=\"https:\/\/airnow.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/airnow.gov\/<\/a> is a great resource to check the air quality in your area!<\/p>\n<p>In honor of the event, the <em>National Environmental Education Foundation<\/em> offered these two short stories on air quality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neefusa.org\/weather-and-climate\/air-we-breathe\">The Air We Breathe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neefusa.org\/weather-and-climate\/weather\/asthma-and-air-quality\">Asthma and Air Quality<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might also be interested in this <a href=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/health-care\/articles\/2017-05-01\/thunderstorms-can-trigger-asthma-flares-study-finds\">story<\/a> about how thunderstorms can trigger asthma from <em>US News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/air-quality-fig-1-download.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10972\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/air-quality-fig-1-download-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/air-quality-fig-1-download-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/air-quality-fig-1-download-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/air-quality-fig-1-download.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/05\/air-quality-fig-1-download-244x138.png 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the State Climate Office of Georgia, this week is National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)&#8216;s Air Quality Awareness Week! Did you know that wildfires and smoke contain fine particulate matter that can cause serious cardiovascular and respiratory effects? When there&#8217;s smoke in the air, limit or suspend outdoor activity until you know the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10977,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10971\/revisions\/10977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}