By Michelle Willson, Student Reporter
Coronavirus has done a lot of damage all around the globe but its also doing good as well. With people staying indoors the Earth has started to recover from the damage that humans cause. There are better qualities of air, clearer water and animals roaming.
With stay at home orders and quarantines in place, people are not traveling like they use to. This means fewer vehicles on the roads. Most factories have slowed down or stopped production. All of this leads to less CO2 released into the atmosphere.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov said that satellites have found decreases in one air pollutant like Nitrogen dioxide over china
“The cloud of nitrogen dioxide that was parked over China in January seemed to evaporate in February,” stated NBC News. “NASA scientists said that similar emissions reductions have been observed in other countries.”
The air is not the only thing that is getting better because of the virus. “In Venice, the often-murky canals recently began to get clearer, with fish visible in the water below,” states NBC News “Italy’s efforts to limit the coronavirus meant an absence of boat traffic on the city’s famous waterways. And the changes happened quickly.”
Monkeys fight over scraps of food in Thailand and sika deer wandering urban areas in japan have both come to rely on food given to them by tourists but because the coronavirus visitor numbers have dried up dramatically in recent weeks News week said.
CNN states that experts fear that a push to jumpstart the world economy could threaten the environment. They call it revenge pollution and they are afraid it could reverse any overall drop in emissions that has happened.