When China imposed coronavirus lockdowns in the winter of 2021 and 2022, cities fell unusually quiet. Traffic thinned, factories slowed, and scientists around the world seized the moment as a rare natural experiment in urban carbon emissions. Yet a new study from Xi’an, a sprawling metropolis in northwestern China, shows that reading the atmosphere during […]
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