Healing Mother Earth

Due to travel bans, social distancing, and working from home, the coronavirus has helped lower the number of carbon emissions and greenhouse gases and improved the world’s overall carbon footprint. In Italy and China, the air quality has increasingly improved because the population is to remain at home. According to the BBC, both countries have recorded lower nitrogen dioxide levels and the changes can also be noted through satellite images. A European Space Agency satellite image shows Italy’s levels decreasing and NASA shows that China’s levels between January 1-20, 2020 and February 10-25, 2020 have significantly decreased. There has also been a 5-10% drop in carbon dioxide in New York with addition to a decline in methane.