Impacts of COVID-19 emissions reductions remain murky in the oceans
E-Mail IMAGE: Off the coast of Hawaii, a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Hawaii Ocean Time-series Station buoy makes measurements of air-sea carbon dioxide, seawater pH, and other oceanographic parameters. view more Credit: Al Plueddemann, WHOI. As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the first half of 2020, humans around the world stopped moving and making, resulting in a 9% drop in the greenhouse gas emissions at the root of climate change. Almost overnight, the Himalayas became visible from a distance for the first time in years. Rivers flowed free of toxic pollutants...
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