{"588941":{"#nid":"588941","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Why is China\u2019s smog so bad? Researchers point far away to a melting Arctic","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn China, the winter of 2013 was an \u0026ldquo;airpocalypse.\u0026rdquo; A thick soup of harmful smog cloaked its biggest cities, contributing to at least 90,000 deaths and sickening hundreds of thousands more. Things haven\u0026rsquo;t gotten much better since then, even though the country has enacted tough new emissions controls. A \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/3\/3\/e1602751\u0022\u003Enew study\u003C\/a\u003E may explain why....\u0026ldquo;The ventilation is getting worse,\u0026rdquo; says study author \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Yuhang_Wang\u0022\u003EYuhang Wang\u003C\/a\u003E, an atmospheric scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. \u0026ldquo;We think climate change, as it is driving rapid warming of the Arctic, is having a large effect on pollution in China.\u0026rdquo; \u003Cem\u003EYuhang Wang is a professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. The study he co-authored was first published in Science Advances.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-03-17 15:19:44","changed_gmt":"2017-03-17 19:07:34","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"sustainability award","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/03\/why-china-s-smog-so-bad-researchers-point-far-away-melting-arctic","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-03-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588936":{"id":"588936","type":"image","title":"Yuhang Wang","body":null,"created":"1489762686","gmt_created":"2017-03-17 14:58:06","changed":"1489762686","gmt_changed":"2017-03-17 14:58:06","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224445","name":"Yuhang Wang.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Yuhang%20Wang.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Yuhang%20Wang.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":108644,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Yuhang%20Wang.jpg?itok=9IxI4fdK"}}},"media_ids":["588936"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"169224","name":"Yuhang Wang"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"104451","name":"air pollution"},{"id":"802","name":"China"},{"id":"173790","name":"airpocalypse"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}