{"id":10568,"date":"2020-04-09T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10568"},"modified":"2020-04-12T13:03:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T20:03:29","slug":"hello-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/09\/hello-everest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marleycoyne\/2020\/04\/09\/pollution-recedes-amid-lockdown-and-a-view-of-the-himalayas-emerges-for-the-first-time-in-30-years\/#134818f44e9b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from FORBES (opens in a new tab)\">from FORBES<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pollution Recedes Amid Lockdown, And A View Of The Himalayas Emerges For The First Time In 30 Years<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marleycoyne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Marley Coyne<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/specials-images.forbesimg.com\/imageserve\/144104432\/960x0.jpg?fit=scale\" alt=\"India, Kashmir, Aerial View Of The Himalayas.\"\/><figcaption>India, Kashmir, Aerial View Of The Himalayas. (Photo by Education Images\/Universal Images Group via\u00a0&#8230; [+]\u00a0UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP VIA GETTY IMAGES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Topline:<\/strong>\u00a0Residents\u00a0in\u00a0north India\u2019s Punjab\u2014where a nationwide coronavirus lockdown has curtailed daily activity\u2014shared a rare look at the snow peaks of the Himalayas, a view that has for decades been obscured by the state\u2019s heavy air pollution.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>India, with 1.3 billion residents, is consistently rated as one of the worst polluted countries in the world, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iqair.com\/world-most-polluted-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IQAir<\/a>,&nbsp;but the coronavirus lockdown has eased the problem\u2019s severity. &nbsp;<\/li><li>Accompanying a significant dip in automobile and flight traffic, at least 85 Indian cities had cleaner air, one&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpcb.nic.in\/air\/NCR\/jantacurfew.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a>&nbsp;reported, following the first week of the March 25 lockdown.<\/li><li>In Jalandhar, Punjab, air quality received a \u201cgood\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/article\/himalayas-visible-lockdown-india-scli-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rating<\/a>&nbsp;16 out of 17 days post-lockdown\u2014a feat not achieved even once during the same period last year.<\/li><li>\u201cIf the air cleans up like this, forget mountain ranges, we may even see god soon,\u201d one Twitter user&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deepscribble\/status\/1246773230422994945?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">joked.<\/a><\/li><li>The Himalayan mountain range is the world\u2019s highest and includes Mount Everest.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marleycoyne\/2020\/04\/09\/pollution-recedes-amid-lockdown-and-a-view-of-the-himalayas-emerges-for-the-first-time-in-30-years\/#134818f44e9b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at FORBES (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at FORBES<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from FORBES Pollution Recedes Amid Lockdown, And A View Of The Himalayas Emerges For The First Time In 30 Years by Marley Coyne Topline:\u00a0Residents\u00a0in\u00a0north India\u2019s Punjab\u2014where a nationwide coronavirus lockdown has curtailed daily activity\u2014shared a rare look at the snow peaks of the Himalayas, a view that has for decades been obscured by the state\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}