{"id":3573,"date":"2011-01-17T06:39:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T11:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2011-01-17T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T14:30:32","slug":"morning-read-quebec-fires-briefly-spiked-north-country-mercury-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/17\/morning-read-quebec-fires-briefly-spiked-north-country-mercury-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Quebec fires briefly spiked North Country mercury levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110117\/NEWS05\/301179979\">The Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting on a recent study showing that those big forest fires in Quebec last summer had a measurable increase in pollution levels in the North Country.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though the scientists noticed a &#8220;significant&#8221; increase in mercury  levels, because the haze was around for only one day, it is not  something that north country residents should worry about, they said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In  terms of a general public health front, this isn&#8217;t a big deal,&#8221; [director of Clarkson&#8217;s Institute for a Sustainable Environment Phillip]  Hopke said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The amount that&#8217;s being deposited is pretty low, so the  amount that&#8217;s being deposited into what&#8217;s going into the farmers markets  is relatively low.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110117\/NEWS05\/301179979\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting on a recent study showing that those big forest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[880,884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3574,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}