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COVID-19

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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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Posted inFeatures

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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Posted inOpinions

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.

Two people stand on the edge of a road, looking at a straight crack, representing the surface trace of a fault, the cuts across the road and offsets its painted centerline.
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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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Exposure to Low Levels of Air Pollution Increases COVID-19 Risk

Tim Hornyak, Science Writer by Tim Hornyak 16 February 202216 February 2022

Although causality has yet to be established, an Italian case study found that an increase in annual average exposure to PM2.5 was associated with a jump in the rate of COVID-19.

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Cleaner Pandemic Air Led to Reduced Lightning Strikes Worldwide

by Krystal Vasquez 26 January 20226 July 2022

As people stayed home during the COVID-19 lockdowns, air quality improved. But the improvement was accompanied by an unusual meteorological side effect: a decrease in lightning.

Posted inGeoFIZZ

Seis formas de seguimiento satelital del COVID-19

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 21 October 202129 March 2023

Una nueva base de datos revela ciudades más opacas, campos de cultivos vacíos y puertos vacíos.

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