{"id":104039,"date":"2020-03-20T09:06:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/theres-an-unlikely-beneficiary-of-coronavirus-the-planet"},"modified":"2020-03-20T09:06:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T16:06:03","slug":"theres-an-unlikely-beneficiary-of-coronavirus-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/theres-an-unlikely-beneficiary-of-coronavirus-the-planet","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s an unlikely beneficiary of coronavirus: The planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-an-unlikely-beneficiary-of-coronavirus-the-planet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Factories were shuttered and streets were cleared across China\u2019s Hubei province as authorities ordered residents to stay home to stop the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the lockdown had an unintended benefit \u2014 blue skies.<\/p>\n<p>The average number of \u201cgood quality air days\u201d increased 21.5% in February, compared to the same period last year, according to China\u2019s Ministry of Ecology and Environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Factories were shuttered and streets were cleared across China\u2019s Hubei province as authorities ordered residents to stay home to stop the spread of the coronavirus. It seems the lockdown had an unintended benefit \u2014 blue skies. The average number of \u201cgood quality air days\u201d increased 21.5% in February, compared to the same period last year, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}