UK nitrogen dioxide pollution levels hit 10-year low during lockdown

By Donna Lu

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The UK-large coronavirus lockdown resulted in a plunge in nitrogen dioxide phases, with the air pollutant reaching low concentrations not seen within the previous decade.

Jonathan Higham at the University of Liverpool, UK, and his colleagues analysed air pollution files from the UK govt’s Computerized Metropolis and Rural Network between the originate of the lockdown on 23 March via to 28 April.

The community consists of 300 sensors allotted round the UK. Each and every hour, they obtain files at the side of the phases of nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide, along with measures …