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Reduced Fires Lead to Some Air Quality Improvements in Africa

Changes in fire patterns have led to seasonal reductions in nitrogen dioxide pollution.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Reduced Fires Lead to Some Air Quality Improvements in Africa.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin and Joshua Stevens, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, and data courtesy of Hickman, J. E., et al. (2021). Story by Sofie Bates, NASA Earth Science News Team, with Mike Carlowicz.

Published March 14, 2021
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