Welcome to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Environmental Data Resource Center

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Air Quality & Weather:

• (New) GW Hatchet: Researchers receive grant to study COVID-19 impact on air quality
• The Hill: Black people are dying from coronavirus — air pollution is one of the main culprits
• Gizmodo: China’s air quality now worse than pre-Coronavirus
• The Guardian: After COVID-19, will we get a greener world?
• Reuters: China sees post-lockdown rise in air pollution: study
• BBC: From lockdown to gridlock: Asia’s traffic resumes after fall in pollution
• Phys.org: COVID-19 lockdowns significantly impacting global air quality
• Smithsonian: Air Pollution May Make COVID-19 Symptoms Worse
• AccuWeather: Air pollution may hold connection to spread of new coronavirus
• Forbes: Air pollution from wildfires may make Coronavirus more lethal 
• BBC: How air pollution exacerbates COVID-19
• The Guardian: COVID-19 and what role air pollution might play
• World Economic Forum: The climate and COVID-19
• Berkeley: Climate change and COVID-19
• The Guardian: Coronavirus detected on particles of air pollution
• UN: COVID-linked carbon emissions won’t halt climate change
• Science Business: COVID-19 is cutting air pollution, but it will not slow climate change
• Unicef: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for tackling the climate crisis
• World Economic Forum: Here’s how lockdowns have improved air quality around the world
• Scientific Alert: Air Pollution Is Increasing The Risk of COVID-19 Death, According to New Studies
• UN: Why Earth day is more important than ever
• Harvard: COVID-19 may not go away in warmer weather as do colds
• Daily Voice: COVID-19 mobile testing centers to be closed during extreme weather
• NAP: Rapid Expert Consultation on SARS-CoV-2 Survival in Relation to Temp and Humidity and Potential for Seasonality for the COVID-19 
• Economic Times: Airborne particles may be assisting the spread of SARS-CoV-2
• Harvard: A national study on long-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States
• PubMed: Association Between the SARS Outbreak and Weather
• South China Morning Post: Coronavirus ‘highly sensitive’ to high temperatures, but don’t bank on summer killing it off
• Science Magazine: Why do dozens of diseases wax and wane with the seasons—and will COVID-19?
• SSRN: High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19
• Swiss Medical Weekly: Potential impact of seasonal forcing on a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
• Technion: COVID-19 findings and interactive tool
• AMA: What’s ahead on COVID-19? Expert offers forecast for summer, fall
• MIT Technology Review: Warmer weather could slow the spread of coronavirus—but not by much

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Data Sets:

• TechCrunch: Twitter launches a COVID-19 data set of tweets for approved developers and researchers
• Snowflake: Weather source offers new Coronavirus data set for free
• Kaggle: COVID-19 data sets
• Facebook: Data for Good
• AWS: Data related to COVID-19 available for Research & Development
• Google Cloud Platform: COVID-19 public data sets
• ZDNet: 32 data sets for COVID-19, updated list
• Starschema: COVID-19 and the first war of data science
• Business Insider: Engineering data sets
• Tableau: Coronavirus data resources
• Humdata: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cases Data
• Harvard: COVID-19 Harvard dataverse
• New York Times: COVID-19 data in the United States
• Towards Data Science: Top 35 R resources on novel COVID-19 Coronavirus
• HDX: COVID-19 pandemic in locations with a humanitarian response dataset
• Open-Source: A global collection of open source projects during COVID-19
• Midas Network: COVID-19 data sets
• R Views: COVID-19 epidemiology with R
• R-bloggers: Top 5 R resources on COVID-19 Coronavirus
• Github collaboration: COVID APIs and visualization 
• Github collaboration: COVID-19 stats

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Media Coverage:

• (New) NRDC: Heatwaves, Cyclones, and Extreme Weather During COVID-19
• The New York Times: Will hot weather kill the Coronavirus where you live?
• Healthline: Warm weather won’t stop COVID-19
• Science Alert: New Study Indicates if Summer Weather Could Affect The Spread of COVID-19
• BBC: Climate change and Covid-19: Five charts that explain the impacts
• LA Times: Amid Coronavirus outbreak, warm weather poses challenges
• National Geographic: For Gen Z, two defining events: COVID-19 and climate change
• SF Chronicle: Coronavirus challenge, warm weather lures Bay area residents to parks
• The Boston Globe: No, warm weather will not kill the Coronavirus
• Bloomberg: Sweden steps up Coronavirus controls as warm weather adds to risks
• The Hill: Covid-19 lessons on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day
• Scientific American: COVID-19 and Climate Change Threats Compound in Minority Communities
• Wired: How Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Affecting Climate Change?
• Nature: Will COVID-19 ruin weather forecasts and historical weather data?
• Local: Energy companies now dealing with safety risks during COVID-19
• Forbes: Why we can’t trust warm weather to stop Coronavirus
• CNN: Storm safety and weather planning during Coronavirus
• National Geographic: Pollution made COVID-19 worse. Now, lockdowns are clearing the air.
• CNN: Prestigious scientific panel tells White House coronavirus won’t go away with warmer weather
• NPR: One more Coronavirus problem: Accurate weather forecasts
• Financial Times: Scientists hopeful warmer weather can slow spread of coronavirus
• The New York Times: Warmer weather may slow, but not halt, Coronavirus
• BBC: Will warm weather really kill off Covid-19?
• Washington Post: Warm, humid weather could slow coronavirus, new research finds