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Global Air Pollution, From Above

Posted by timothy on from the but-poverty-is-noble dept.

neutron_p writes "Based on satellite observations, the high-resolution global atmospheric map of nitrogen dioxide pollution makes clear just how human activities impact air quality. I'm a bit surprised not to see that many red blobs above US and the strange one is on the east of Russia."

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  1. night map by Coneasfast · · Score: 5, Interesting

    note how the red areas are somewhat similar to the light areas on the nasa night map

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