Cleaner air in European cities as nitrogen dioxide levels drop with lockdowns

Monday, March 30th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

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Air pollution has decreased in urban areas across Europe during lockdowns to combat the corona-virus, new satellite images showed on Monday, but campaigners warned city-dwellers were still more vulnerable to the epidemic. Cities including Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Milan and Frankfurt showed a reduction in average levels of noxious nitrogen dioxide over Mar 5-25, compared with the same period last year, according to the Sentinel-5 satellite images. Read full article

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Enrique Massot
Who knew? The coronavirus pandemic may after all become an opportunity by defeating naysayers arguing “the economy” does not allow to reduce life-shortening pollution and climate-changing carbon emissions.
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DemonTree
I'd love to agree with you, but the IMF declared a global recession 4 days ago. Putting the economy on hold is not a sustainable way to reduce pollution.
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