{"id":2253,"date":"2011-03-16T05:51:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T21:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2011-10-02T22:46:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T14:46:22","slug":"scary-pollution-in-mongolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/scary-pollution-in-mongolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy pollution in Mongolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The picture provided by otgonbayar from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, says a thousand words:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2256\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ulaanbaatar-Mongolia-3.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2256\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2256\" title=\"Ulaanbaatar-Mongolia-3\" src=\"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ulaanbaatar-Mongolia-3.webp\" alt=\"Air pollution in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air pollution in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2254\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ulaanbaatar-Mongolia-1.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2254\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2254\" title=\"Ulaanbaatar-Mongolia-1\" src=\"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ulaanbaatar-Mongolia-1.webp\" alt=\"Air pollution in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air pollution in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2255\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ulaanbaatar-Mongolia-2.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2255\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2255\" title=\"Ulaanbaatar-Mongolia-2\" src=\"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ulaanbaatar-Mongolia-2.webp\" alt=\"Air pollution in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Air pollution in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to Tumenbayasgalan, another reader of our blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In our capital city Ulaanbaatar we have heavy air pollution during November-March period as a result of traditional Mongolian houses (yourts) burn raw coal for their daily use such as heating, cooking, etc. We also have heavy traffic jam and blowing dust during springtime that contributes to air pollution. Air quality index has been recorded as high as 279 compared to WHO &#8216;s recommended index 0-20. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/williampentland\/2011\/10\/01\/worlds-most-dangerous-places-to-breath\/\">Forbes article<\/a> by William Pentland highlighted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In December 1952, the Great Smog that settled over the city of London for four deadly days claimed the lives of more than 4,000 people that winter. In 1948, a similar soot-filled cloud was responsible for dozens of deaths in Donora, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake about it: dirty air is dangerous to breath.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/pm\/health.html\">U.S. Environmental Protection Agency<\/a> explains why:<\/p>\n<p>Particle pollution \u2013 especially fine particles \u2013 contains microscopic solids or liquid droplets that are so small that they can get deep into the lungs and cause serious health problems. Numerous scientific studies have linked particle pollution exposure to a variety of problems, including [aggravated asthma, chronic bronchitis, irregular heartbeat and premature death in people with heart or lung disease] . . . People with heart or lung diseases, children and older adults are the most likely to be affected by particle pollution exposure. However, even if you are healthy, you may experience temporary symptoms from exposure to elevated levels of particle pollution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As facemask becomes a must have during the winter month, some well connected residences of Ulaanbaatar started to discover the advantage of Totobobo: high tech protection, comfort , easy to clean and fit everybody including children and adult.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Totobobo users in Mongolia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.totobobo.com\/images\/Mongolia-Totobobo-user-1.webp\" alt=\"Totobobo users in Mongolia\" width=\"450\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ulaanbaatar resident wearing Totobobo mask<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Totobobo users in Mongolia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.totobobo.com\/images\/Mongolia-Totobobo-user-4.webp\" alt=\"Totobobo users in Mongolia\" width=\"450\" height=\"297\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monk users in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Totobobo users in Mongolia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.totobobo.com\/images\/Mongolia-Totobobo-user-2.webp\" alt=\"Totobobo users in Mongolia\" width=\"450\" height=\"518\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nun user wearing Totobobo users in front of temple<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Totobobo users in Mongolia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.totobobo.com\/images\/Mongolia-Totobobo-user-3.webp\" alt=\"Totobobo users in Mongolia\" width=\"450\" height=\"486\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mother and son wearing Totobobo mask in Mongolia<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture provided by otgonbayar from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, says a thousand words: According to Tumenbayasgalan, another reader of our blog: In our capital city Ulaanbaatar we have heavy air pollution during November-March period as a result of traditional Mongolian houses (yourts) burn raw coal for their daily use such as heating, cooking, etc. We also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-pollution"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}