{"id":2429,"date":"2024-03-25T11:29:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T11:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfa-proxima.com\/98-of-europeans-still-live-in-an-environment-with-excessive-levels-of-hazardous-pm2-5-particles\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:29:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T11:29:53","slug":"98-of-europeans-still-live-in-an-environment-with-excessive-levels-of-hazardous-pm2-5-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfa-proxima.com\/en\/98-of-europeans-still-live-in-an-environment-with-excessive-levels-of-hazardous-pm2-5-particles\/","title":{"rendered":"98% of Europeans still live in an environment with excessive levels of hazardous PM2.5 particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>Studies on air pollution in the EU have shown that air quality in Europe has improved over the past 20 years. Nevertheless, the majority of the EU&#8217;s population still breathes polluted air. The World Health Organisation (WHO) states that 98% of the population is still living in areas where the level of pollution with PM 2.5 particles is too high. A slightly lower percentage &#8211; 80% &#8211; applies to PM10 particles, and 86% to nitrogen dioxide.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>PM 10 and PM 2.5 particles are small enough to penetrate deep into the lungs and are linked to several health issues, such as heart disease, cancer, and premature births.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Source: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/mar\/13\/air-pollution-levels-have-improved-in-europe-over-20-years-say-researchers<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Studies on air pollution in the EU have shown that air quality in Europe has improved over the past 20 years. Nevertheless, the majority of the EU&#8217;s population still breathes polluted air. The World Health Organisation (WHO) states that 98% of the population is still living in areas where the level of pollution with PM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfa-proxima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfa-proxima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfa-proxima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfa-proxima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfa-proxima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfa-proxima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfa-proxima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfa-proxima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfa-proxima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfa-proxima.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}