Public health measures shutting down workplaces and schools to fight the COVID-19 pandemic have led to a noticeable reduction in air pollution in multiple Canadian cities known for their traffic congestion, according to satellite images shared with CBC News. Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver have seen drops in vehicle traffic over the last few days as physical distancing…

Take a look at the gold in the ring on your finger or a piece of jewelry. You are looking at something that came from a violent event that took place a long time ago in our galaxy before Earth was even born. The precious metal can only be made during some of the most cataclysmic…

Cybersecurity experts describe it as a perfect storm: employees working from home — away from their firm’s IT experts and sometimes without the protection of a corporate computer network —  and hungry for information about a mysterious coronavirus. With the COVID-19 crisis as the backdrop, fraudsters appear to be redoubling their efforts to steal information or money…

New <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/NO2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#NO2</a> map available for <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Italy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#Italy</a>- based on data from <a href=”https://twitter.com/CopernicusEU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@CopernicusEU</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#Sentinel5P</a> and processed by <a href=”https://twitter.com/KNMI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@KNMI</a>/<a href=”https://twitter.com/esa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@esa</a>.<br>?️images show nitrogen dioxide concentrations from 14 to 25 March 2020, compared to the monthly average of concentrations from 2019. <br>Read more: <a href=”https://t.co/0gXGSaJAed”>https://t.co/0gXGSaJAed</a> <a href=”https://t.co/UCV6RN0C0U”>pic.twitter.com/UCV6RN0C0U</a> &mdash;@ESA_EO Air pollution from nitrogen dioxide has fallen…

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday abruptly waived enforcement on a range of legally mandated public-health and environmental protections, saying industries could have trouble complying with them during the coronavirus pandemic. The oil and gas industry were among the industries that had sought an advance relaxation of environmental and public-health enforcement during the outbreak,…