{"id":2288,"date":"2025-08-27T10:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2025-08-27T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:12:14","slug":"dust-storms-hit-north-american-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/dust-storms-hit-north-american-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Dust Storms Hit North American Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On August 26, a powerful dust storm struck the southwestern United States, with Phoenix, Arizona witnessing a \u201cdust wall\u201d hundreds of meters tall. The storm caused localized power outages, flight delays, and damage to trees and homes. This phenomenon, known as a \u201chaboobo,\u201d forms when strong downdrafts from thunderstorms stir up dust from arid regions. Experts warn that climate change is intensifying the frequency and severity of such extreme weather events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 26, a powerful dust storm struck the southwestern United States, with Phoenix, Arizona witnessing a \u201cdust wall\u201d hundreds of meters tall. The storm caused localized power outages, flight delays, and damage to trees and homes. This phenomenon, known as a \u201chaboobo,\u201d forms when strong downdrafts from thunderstorms stir up dust from arid regions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"views":200,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}