{"id":3702,"date":"2026-07-22T09:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2026-07-22T09:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:17:34","slug":"sandstorms-sweep-across-tajikistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/sandstorms-sweep-across-tajikistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandstorms Sweep Across Tajikistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tajikistan has been hit by widespread regional sandstorms, with billowing yellow sand spreading across the entire country. The capital, Dushanbe, and Khatlon Province have become the core areas affected by this dust storm. Monitored concentrations of airborne particulate matter have significantly exceeded safety thresholds, and the dust-filled skies have caused visibility to drop sharply across the region. The dust, carried long distances by air currents, is mixed with large amounts of heavy metal particles from the soil. It continues to spread and permeate urban residential areas, where the prolonged accumulation of harmful particulate matter in the air poses a persistent threat to public health and significantly increases the risk of respiratory diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tajikistan has been hit by widespread regional sandstorms, with billowing yellow sand spreading across the entire country. The capital, Dushanbe, and Khatlon Province have become the core areas affected by this dust storm. Monitored concentrations of airborne particulate matter have significantly exceeded safety thresholds, and the dust-filled skies have caused visibility to drop sharply across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-survival"],"views":76,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3704,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/3704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}