{"id":18972,"date":"2020-05-25T19:10:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T23:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cr2.cl\/eng\/?p=18972"},"modified":"2020-07-30T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T23:14:17","slug":"the-meaty-link-between-a-citys-football-matches-and-its-foul-air-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cr2.cl\/eng\/the-meaty-link-between-a-citys-football-matches-and-its-foul-air-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"The meaty link between a city\u2019s football matches and its foul air (Nature)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chilean fans\u2019 fervour for grilling leads to pollution spikes when the national team plays.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item__body serif\">\n<p>The skies of Santiago grow murky during the national football team\u2019s biggest matches \u2014 because fans fire up their barbecues.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials have suspected that smoke rising from charcoal- and wood-fired grills contributes to spikes in Santiago\u2019s air pollution. To investigate that theory, R\u00e9my Lapere at the Polytechnic Institute of Paris and his colleagues looked at air-quality data from 2014 to 2016 and found that the chemical make-up of the pollution matched that from grills but not that from other sources, such as traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also found that pollution peaked sharply on certain winter days: those on which the Chilean football team had big games, such as during the World Cup or the Copa Am\u00e9rica tournament. The highest peaks occurred during kick-off hour on days before non-working days.<\/p>\n<p>Such pollution spikes last only a few hours but can send people to hospital with breathing difficulties. The findings could help officials developing plans to fight air pollution, the authors say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__sidebar\">\n<p class=\"article-item__original-research strong\"><a class=\"serif\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/acp-20-4681-2020\" data-track=\"click\" data-track-label=\"original research\"><i>Atmos. Chem. Phys.<\/i> (2020) <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-01406-5\">Nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chilean fans\u2019 fervour for grilling leads to pollution spikes when the national team plays. The skies of Santiago grow murky during the national football team\u2019s biggest matches \u2014 because fans fire up their barbecues. Local officials have suspected that smoke rising from charcoal- and wood-fired grills contributes to spikes in Santiago\u2019s air pollution. To investigate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,21],"tags":[32,996,997,111,998,995],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cr2.cl\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cr2.cl\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cr2.cl\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cr2.cl\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cr2.cl\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cr2.cl\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18975,"href":"https:\/\/www.cr2.cl\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions\/18975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cr2.cl\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cr2.cl\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cr2.cl\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cr2.cl\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}