{"id":25977,"date":"2025-04-08T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=25977"},"modified":"2025-04-08T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:00:38","slug":"steppes-and-the-city-how-smog-has-become-part-of-mongolians-way-of-life-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=25977","title":{"rendered":"Steppes and the city: how smog has become part of Mongolians\u2019 way of life \u2013 in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harsh weather is normal in Mongolia but the climate crisis has made conditions even more extreme. As millions of animals die and age-old traditions become harder to maintain, nomadic herders are forced into towns, where coal-fired heating has led to a health crisis<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/apr\/08\/everyone-is-breathing-this-how-just-trying-to-stay-warm-is-killing-thousands-a-year-in-the-worlds-coldest-city\">\u2018Everyone is breathing this\u2019: how just trying to stay warm is killing thousands a year in the world\u2019s coldest capital<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2025\/apr\/08\/mongolia-pastoralists-nomads-steppe-urbanisation-smog-air-pollution-climate-crisis-coal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harsh weather is normal in Mongolia but the climate crisis has made conditions even more extreme. As millions of animals die and age-old traditions become harder to maintain, nomadic herders&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-without-rubric"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}