Happy Earth Day! COVID-19 Leads to Less Air Pollution

Reports are coming out all over the world about how sheltering-in-place and travel restrictions, especially the grounding of aircraft and the temporary closures of factories, have led to substantial reductions in the amount of air pollution. 

It started with NASA posting satellite images of China's air clearing amid the slowdown in late February. The article The Day the Earth Moved from The Progressive talks about Earth Day and how the coronavirus has affected air pollution around the world. You can find more articles about Earth Day, air pollution, or the coronavirus with the library's research databases.

You will find the most results for general topic searches by using our Article Search. This will search multiple databases and get you the broadest list of results. Of course we have many, many more databases on specific topics and in specific fields that will get you more targeted results. Here is a link to an A-Z list of all our databases.