Where Warehouses Are Built, Air Pollution Follows

New research shows that the presence of warehouses in the Los Angeles area is associated with higher levels of airborne particulate pollution.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Where Warehouses Are Built, Air Pollution Follows.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using data from Yang, Binyu, et al. (2024), county boundaries from the California Open Data Portal, state highways from The California Department of Transportation. Story by Andrew Wang, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, adapted for NASA Earth Observatory.

Published October 19, 2024
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