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Levels of two major air pollutants have been reduced significantly since lockdowns began in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a secondary pollutant—ground-level ozone—has increased in China, according to new research. For comparison, columns over the same time periods are shown for 2019. —Guy Brasseur.

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and ozone deaths, associated mortality rates, and population in G20 economies in 2015. and ozone worldwide in 2010 and ~385,000 in 2015, equivalent to 11.7% and ozone premature deaths in 2010 and 11.4% and ozone concentrations from transportation emissions resulted in 7.8 and ozone deaths in 2015, broken out by subsector.

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MARCH 20, 2020

The satellite carries the Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulfur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols. ©ESA/ATG As news of the coronavirus broke out in the Hubei province, China, in late December 2019, stricter measures were put in place.

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MARCH 12, 2019

years in life expectancy); 136 in Italy (reduction in life expectancy of 1.9 2019) “Cardiovascular disease burden from ambient air pollution in Europe reassessed using novel hazard ratio functions” European Heart Journal doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz135. They focused particularly on PM 2.5 Jos Lelieveld, Thomas Münzel et al.

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