{"id":10627,"date":"2021-01-20T03:09:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T03:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/20\/in-russias-urals-abandoned-industrial-towns-are-reclaimed-by-forest-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-20T03:09:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T03:09:44","slug":"in-russias-urals-abandoned-industrial-towns-are-reclaimed-by-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/in-russias-urals-abandoned-industrial-towns-are-reclaimed-by-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"In Russia\u2019s Urals, Abandoned Industrial Towns Are Reclaimed By Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"yHxdLhroz60\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>In Russia&#8217;s Urals region, towns that once churned out industrial chemicals and coal are now largely abandoned. Verkhnyaya Gubakha was once a thriving city of more than 30,000, but the population has dwindled, and the landscape is returning to forested taiga.<br \/>\nOriginally published at &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/russia-urals-taiga-abandoned-town-gubakha-environment-chemical-hazard\/31046286.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/russia-urals-taiga-abandoned-town-gubakha-environment-chemical-hazard\/31046286.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/20\/in-russias-urals-abandoned-industrial-towns-are-reclaimed-by-forest-2\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Russia\u2019s Urals region, towns that once churned out industrial chemicals and coal are now largely abandoned. Verkhnyaya Gubakha was once a thriving city of more than 30,000,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10628,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions\/10628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}