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1	Analysis of biochar-mortar composite as a humidity control material to improve the building energy and hygrothermal performance.	Park JH, Kim YU, Jeon J, Yun BY, Kang Y, Kim S	33611181 ENCS
2	Role of organic matter and microbial communities in mercury retention and methylation in sediments near run-of-river hydroelectric dams.	Millera Ferriz L, Ponton DE, Storck V, Leclerc M, Bilodeau F, Walsh DA, Amyot M	33609815 BIOLOGY
3	Assessing the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on urban transportation and air quality in Canada.	Tian X, An C, Chen Z, Tian Z	33401062 ENCS
4	PM2.5 and hospital admissions among Medicare enrollees with chronic debilitating brain disorders.	Yitshak-Sade M, Nethery R, Schwartz JD, Mealli F, Dominici F, Di Q, Abu Awad Y, Ifergane G, Zanobetti A	33065503 PSYCHOLOGY
5	Removal of arsenic from water through ceramic filter modified by nano-CeO2: A cost-effective approach for remote areas.	Yang X; Huang G; An C; Chen X; Shen J; Yin J; Song P; Xu Z; Li Y;	33182193 ENCS
6	A comprehensive investigation of industrial plastic pellets on beaches across the Laurentian Great Lakes and the factors governing their distribution.	Corcoran PL, de Haan Ward J, Arturo IA, Belontz SL, Moore T, Hill-Svehla CM, Robertson K, Wood K, Jazvac K	32781316 CONCORDIA
7	The dark cloud with a silver lining: Assessing the impact of the SARS COVID-19 pandemic on the global environment.	Lal P, Kumar A, Kumar S, Kumari S, Saikia P, Dayanandan A, Adhikari D, Khan ML	32408041 BIOLOGY
8	The NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network: A national assessment of lake health providing science for water management in a changing climate.	Huot Y, Brown CA, Potvin G, Antoniades D, Baulch HM, Beisner BE, Bélanger S, Brazeau S, Cabana H, Cardille JA, Del Giorgio PA, Gregory-Eaves I, Fortin MJ, Lang AS, Laurion I, Maranger R, Prairie YT, Rusak JA, Segura PA, Siron R, Smol JP, Vinebrooke RD, Walsh DA	31419692 BIOLOGY
9	Treatment of rural domestic wastewater using multi-soil-layering systems: Performance evaluation, factorial analysis and numerical modeling.	Song P, Huang G, An C, Shen J, Zhang P, Chen X, Shen J, Yao Y, Zheng R, Sun C	29990903 ENCS
10	Simulating micro-scale thermal interactions in different building environments for mitigating urban heat islands.	Chatterjee S, Khan A, Dinda A, Mithun S, Khatun R, Akbari H, Kusaka H, Mitra C, Bhatti SS, Doan QV, Wang Y	30731408 ENCS
11	Anthropogenic and natural methane emissions from a shale gas exploration area of Quebec, Canada.	Pinti DL, Gelinas Y, Moritz AM, Larocque M, Sano Y	27267724 CHEMBIOCHEM

Title:	The dark cloud with a silver lining: Assessing the impact of the SARS COVID-19 pandemic on the global environment.
Authors:	Lal P, Kumar A, Kumar S, Kumari S, Saikia P, Dayanandan A, Adhikari D, Khan ML
Link:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32408041?dopt=Abstract
DOI:	10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139297
Publication:	The Science of the total environment
Keywords:	Absolute humidity; Air pollution; COVID-19 hazard; Temperature;
PMID:	32408041	Category:	Sci Total Environ	Date Added:	2020-05-15
Dept Affiliation:	BIOLOGY 1 Department of Geoinformatics, Central University of Jharkhand, Brambe-835205 Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. 2 Department of Geoinformatics, Central University of Jharkhand, Brambe-835205 Ranchi, Jharkhand, India; International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), South Asia. Electronic address: amit.kumar@cuj.ac.in. 3 Department of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jharkhand, Brambe-835205 Ranchi, Jharkhand, India; International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), South Asia. Electronic address: purabi.saikia@cuj.ac.in. 4 Department of Biology, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6, Canada. 5 Department of Botany, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong 793022, Meghalaya, India. 6 Department of Botany, Dr Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, Madhya Pradesh 470003, India; International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM), South Asia.

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The dark cloud with a silver lining: Assessing the impact of the SARS COVID-19 pandemic on the global environment.

Sci Total Environ. 2020 May 08;732:139297

Authors: Lal P, Kumar A, Kumar S, Kumari S, Saikia P, Dayanandan A, Adhikari D, Khan ML

Abstract

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 has caused tremendous suffering and huge economic losses. We hypothesized that extreme measures of partial-to-total shutdown might have influenced the quality of the global environment because of decreased emissions of atmospheric pollutants. We tested this hypothesis using satellite imagery, climatic datasets (temperature, and absolute humidity), and COVID-19 cases available in the public domain. While the majority of the cases were recorded from Western countries, where mortality rates were strongly positively correlated with age, the number of cases in tropical regions was relatively lower than European and North American regions, possibly attributed to faster human-to-human transmission. There was a substantial reduction in the level of nitrogen dioxide (NO2: 0.00002 mol m-2), a low reduction in CO (<0.03 mol m-2), and a low-to-moderate reduction in Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD: ~0.1-0.2) in the major hotspots of COVID-19 outbreak during February-March 2020, which may be attributed to the mass lockdowns. Our study projects an increasing coverage of high COVID-19 hazard at absolute humidity levels ranging from 4 to 9 g m-3 across a large part of the globe during April-July 2020 due to a high prospective meteorological suitability for COVID-19 spread. Our findings suggest that there is ample scope for restoring the global environment from the ill-effects of anthropogenic activities through temporary shutdown measures.

PMID: 32408041 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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