{"id":203735,"date":"2025-01-14T08:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-far-reaching-impacts-of-wildfire-smoke-and-how-to-protect-yourself"},"modified":"2025-01-14T08:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:33:19","slug":"the-far-reaching-impacts-of-wildfire-smoke-and-how-to-protect-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-far-reaching-impacts-of-wildfire-smoke-and-how-to-protect-yourself","title":{"rendered":"The far-reaching impacts of wildfire smoke \u2014 and how to protect yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-far-reaching-impacts-of-wildfire-smoke-and-how-to-protect-yourself.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b id=\"the-air-we-breathe-can-have-profound-effects-on-our-physical-and-mental-health.-is-there-any-way-of-protecting-yourself-from-this-pervasive-problem?\" class=\"\">The air we breathe can have profound effects on our physical and mental health. Is there any way of protecting yourself from this pervasive problem?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>All but 1% of the world\u2019s population is exposed to unhealthy air that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/health-topics\/air-pollution#tab=tab_1\" class=\"\">exceeds World Health Organization (WHO) limits<\/a> for pollutants. In parts of the world, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/epic.uchicago.edu\/insights\/china-has-quickly-and-sharply-reduced-pollution-since-enacting-strict-policies\/\" class=\"\">air quality has rapidly improved through policies that aim to limit pollution<\/a>. But elsewhere, gains in air quality are at risk of being lost.<\/p>\n<p>More than 25% of the US population is exposed to air considered \u201cunhealthy\u201d by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/firststreet.org\/research-library\/atrocious-air\" class=\"\">a report by the climate non-profit First Street Foundation<\/a>. By 2050, the number of people exposed to \u201cunhealthy\u201d days is set to increase by more than half. The worst days of air pollution (\u201chazardous\u201d or maroon, under the EPA\u2019s system) are expected to rise by 27%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air we breathe can have profound effects on our physical and mental health. Is there any way of protecting yourself from this pervasive problem? All but 1% of the world\u2019s population is exposed to unhealthy air that exceeds World Health Organization (WHO) limits for pollutants. In parts of the world, air quality has rapidly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,47,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-neuroscience","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203735","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}