The environment continues to benefit from everyone staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic. The entire state of California is under stay-at-home orders in the hope of slowing down, or stopping altogether, the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
With fewer cars on the road and people hunkering down, Los Angeles‘ air quality has never been better. In fact, right now it has some of the cleanest air of any major city.
A photo taken by Reuters photographer Lucy Nicholson shows clean Los Angeles skies on April 7. The downtown freeways are notably free of the city’s usual bumper-to-bumper traffic.