{"588942":{"#nid":"588942","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"\u2018Airpocalypse\u2019 smog events in China linked to melting ice cap, research reveals","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EClimate change played a major role in the extreme air pollution events suffered recently by China and is likely to make such \u0026ldquo;airpocalypses\u0026rdquo; more common, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/3\/3\/e1602751\u0022\u003Enew research\u003C\/a\u003E has revealed....\u0026ldquo;The very rapid change in polar warming is really having a large impact on China,\u0026rdquo; said Prof.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/Yuhang_Wang\u0022\u003EYuhang Wang\u003C\/a\u003E, at Georgia Tech in the U.S., who led the new research. \u0026ldquo;Emissions in China have been decreasing over the last four years, but the severe winter haze is not getting better.\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 15:25:47","changed_gmt":"2017-03-17 19:09:27","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Christine Angelini","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/mar\/15\/airpocalypse-smog-events-linked-to-global-warming-research-reveals","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:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Yuhang%20Wang.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":108644,"path_740":"http:\/\/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":"173050","name":"climate science"},{"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":""}}}