The COVID-19 pandemic has forced hundreds of millions of people to self-isolate as entire countries went on lockdown in recent weeks.
Recently NASA has noticed that the pandemic is having a good environmental impact. Measurements taken by NASA satellites have revealed noteworthy decreases in air pollution by 30% over the major metropolitan regions of the Northeast United States. Similar reductions have been observed in other regions of the world.
The data indicate that the nitrogen dioxide levels in March 2020 are about 30% lower on average across the region of the I-95 corridor from Washington, DC to Boston than when compared to the March mean of 2015-19.
However, scientists think that further analysis is required to thoroughly measure the measure of the change in nitrogen dioxide levels related to changes in emissions versus natural variations in weather.
source: techexplorist.com
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