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COVID Lockdowns Lead To Drop In Fossil Fuel Burning, Global Ozone Pollution

Forced lockdowns across the world due to the coronavirus pandemic had a direct impact on the effect on ozone pollution, a NASA study has found.

As the lockdowns slowed global commerce, emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) decreased 15 percent globally, with local reductions as high as 50 percent, according to a study led by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

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