Air pollution from oil and gas production sites visible from space
Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - 14:20
in Earth & Climate
Oil and gas production has doubled in some parts of the United States in the last two years, and scientists can use satellites to see impacts of that trend: a significant increase in the release of the lung-irritating air pollutant nitrogen dioxide, for example, and a more-than-doubling of the amount of gas flared into the atmosphere.