How has COVID-19 affected pollution levels around the globe?

This appeared in The Millennial Source

As a result of the hundreds of millions of people around the world who are currently in lockdown due to the spread of COVID-19, countries are experiencing a reduction in pollution.

From North America to Europe and Asia, the reduced number of people traveling and commuting to work has decreased emissions of greenhouse gases.

The reduction in pollution has been observed both on a large scale by satellites tracking air pollution, as well as on a smaller scale in the form of clearer waters and skies.

However, experts caution that the reduced pollution is a temporary effect of the lockdowns, not a permanent change.

The local and global impact of coronavirus

Though the federal government in the United States has not enacted a national lockdown order, a few individual states are requiring that its citizens remain at home unless their need for going out is absolutely necessary.

In other countries where citizens have been on lockdown for weeks, local life has already changed. But it is now becoming clear that the lockdowns are also having global side effects.