Air pollution levels and warming gases are showing significant drops around the world as the Covid-19 crisis shuts down entire regions.
In particular there was a notably, and unintended, uplifting improvement at one of the world’s most famous tourist spots. Fish were seen for the first time in generations in cleaner and clearer waters in Venice’s canals as tourism came to a halt.
Satellite images have also been circulating showing how the scale of the powerful lockdowns have reduced air pollution in China and Italy this year.
Photographs from NASA at the beginning of the month outlined the dramatic fall in pollution across China that was "partly related" to the economic slowdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, the space agency said.