2024-07-25
Using satellite data and a national warehouse dataset HAQAST researchers found that the nearly 150,000 warehouses in the U.S. worsen local traffic-related air pollution. #AirPollution https://www.nytimes.com/... (1/2)
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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 …