2024-07-25
As heavy industry gets cleaner, logistics hubs are becoming the significant contributor to pollution & concentrated in just 10 counties across the US. Miami-Dade is on that list. Looking From Space, Researchers Find Pollution Spiking Near E-Commerce Hubs https://www.nytimes.com/...
The Verge
A NASA-funded study of satellite data finds traffic-related N02 pollution spiked ~20% near ~150K large US warehouses, which have proliferated due to e-commerce
The data is in, and it shows a significant rise in air pollution where e-retailers build their warehouses …