{"id":682726,"date":"2021-03-02T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T16:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=682726"},"modified":"2021-03-02T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T16:03:24","slug":"cleaner-air-less-soil-pollution-unintended-but-beneficial-side-effect-of-clean-air-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=682726","title":{"rendered":"Cleaner air, less soil pollution: Unintended but beneficial side effect of Clean Air Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Removal of pollutants from the air, or atmospheric deposition, is a natural cleaning mechanism. However, the removed toxic materials don&#8217;t just disappear on the Earth. China&#8217;s Soil Pollution Survey released in 2014 shows that 19.4% of the Chinese farmland soil was polluted and 82% of the pollutant was toxic heavy metals such as cadmium, which can cause chronic health problems.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-03-cleaner-air-soil-pollution-unintended.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cleaner air, less soil pollution: Unintended but beneficial side effect of Clean Air Act<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Removal of pollutants from the air, or atmospheric deposition, is a natural cleaning mechanism. However, the removed toxic materials don&#8217;t just disappear on the Earth. China&#8217;s Soil Pollution Survey released&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}