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COVID-19

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Air Pollution Increases COVID-19 Risks

Javier Barbuzano, Science Writer by Javier Barbuzano 2 August 20232 August 2023

A crop of new studies shows that exposure to air pollution adds days to hospital stays and increases the likelihood of death from COVID-19.

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Posted inEditors' Highlights

Tracking Human CO2 Emissions from Medium-Sized Cities

by Bo Zheng 28 June 202327 June 2023

Atmospheric inverse models, combined with observations, successfully tracked modest CO2 emission reductions in Salt Lake City during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.

Patients lie in rows of beds in a makeshift hospital set up in a sporting venue.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

COVID-19 Got You Feeling Under the Weather? Maybe Blame…the Weather

by Saima May Sidik 29 March 20232 May 2023

High humidity and low temperature altered COVID-19 spread in Brazil, but only slightly.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Roadside Plants Witness COVID Traffic

Eric Davidson, president-elect of AGU by Eric Davidson 7 January 20237 January 2023

Radiocarbon in roadside plants revealed a decline in auto emissions during COVID lockdown and a 2021 rebound. Could this improve emission estimates in countries without CO2 monitoring infrastructure?

Posted inEditors' Vox

Sewing DEI Into the Fabric of the Geosciences

by Paige Wooden, Mia Ricci and Tanya Dzekon 13 July 20228 February 2023

AGU journals host a new living special collection on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the geosciences and invite additional contributions to grow this collection.

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Indoor Air Pollution in the Time of Coronavirus

Richard Sima, freelance science writer by Richard J. Sima 31 May 202230 November 2022

How aerosol scientists spread the word on the airborne transmission of COVID-19–and what it means for cleaning our indoor air.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Less Air Travel May Partially Contribute to Global Warming

by Tong Zhu 14 April 20221 June 2023

Decrease in aircraft soot emission, as shown by COVID-19 lockdown, leads to a significant increase in ice crystal number in cirrus clouds, and results in a small global positive radiative effect.

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Deep-Sea Exploration Could Help Us Fight the Next Pandemic

by Nathan J. Robinson 25 March 202215 July 2022

Deep-ocean-dwelling microbes may hold keys to improved medical diagnostics and new drugs for fighting diseases. But we must search Earth’s most extreme habitats to find them.

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Striking Out into the Field to Track Slip on the Sumatran Fault

by Karen Lythgoe, Umar Muksin, Arifullah, Andrean Simanjuntak and Shengji Wei 16 March 202223 June 2022

An international team overcame many challenges, including from the COVID-19 pandemic, to deploy a dense seismic network along an understudied fault system that poses hazards to millions in Indonesia.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

Air Pollution Was Reduced During the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Donald Wuebbles 4 March 20228 September 2022

A decrease in emissions of ozone precursor gases during the COVID-19 economic downturn likely explains the unusual reduction in ozone concentrations observed during the spring and summer of 2020.

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