Write an article on the topic" covid-19 a blessing in disguise for environment”.
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. Countries all over the world have implemented some sort of lockdown to slow down its infection and mitigate it. Lockdown due to COVID-19 has drastic effects on social and economic fronts. However, this lockdown also has some positive effect on natural environment. Recent data released by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and ESA (European Space Agency) indicates that pollution in some of the epicenters of COVID-19 such as Wuhan, Italy, Spain and USA etc. has reduced up to 30%. This study compiled the environmental data released by NASA and ESA before and after the coronavirus pandemic and discusses its impact on environmental quality.
Keywords: COVID-19; Environmental pollution; NO(2) emissions.
CoVID-19 crisis has brought the entire world to a standstill. The pace at which technological development was taking place globally, we felt that the control of everything in this world is in our hands and we can change whatever we wished to change. However, this pandemic has brought us to a conclusion that we all are mere players in the hands of nature which we had been taking for granted for several decades together. It had been sending signals in one form or the other to mend our ways but we have been ignoring it impertinently. The initial phases of this disease made us believe that due to the restricted movements of people within their respective cities, there has been a relief for the environment- no exhausts from factories, no fumes from cars, cleaner rivers and oceans, clearer skies and fresher air to breathe. As a result of which, we could see a lot of species of birds, insects and animals which had long been lost due to our indiscriminate play with the environment. For instance, there was a day when a Neelgai was found roaming on the roads of Noida which before commercialization was once an arable land. This is a clear indication of how our activities have trespassed into the various fauna’s original habitats and have interfered with their interaction with nature.