Social Distancing Is Also Helping the Climate

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By Jordan DavidsonMar 16, 2020, 11:00 am335 pts
As schools close, as workers are asked to stay home, and as concerts and sports events are put on hold in an attempt to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus that the World Health Organization has declared a pandemic, the practice of social distancing is having a collateral benefit — it's slowing the…

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