Welcome to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Environmental Data Resource Center
We’re all trying to understand the connection between environmental variables and the spread of COVID-19, but we need to better understand how, and quickly. We need more testing, data, and statistically significant results.
This COVID-19 resource center is 100% dedicated to sharing leading resources from around the world to better understand how we can leverage the environmental technology and developer community and advance our understanding of COVID-19 to help solve this global pandemic.
Below you’ll find the latest environmental findings being published, hackathons, events, tools, weather API options, and research opportunities for you to contribute. We’ll continue updating this page frequently, and if you have comments, questions, or content you’d like to see posted please send an email to dan.slagen@climacell.co.
Content
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Air Quality & Weather:
- (New) IEEE Spectrum: COVID-19’s effect on air quality can be seen from space
- Forbes: COVID-19 catapults indoor air quality to top of the list
- BBC: Air quality improving in most polluted streets
- Eurasianet: New study uses COVID-19 lockdown to isolate causes of air pollution
- ACSH: American Council on Science and Health: Coronavirus, as an air pollutant
- WebMD: COVID-19 Cases Drop in Warm Weather, But Not Much
- The Guardian: Air pollution in China back to pre-Covid levels and Europe may follow
- Scientific American: Coronavirus Lockdowns May Raise Exposure to Indoor Air Pollution
- The Guardian: Cut air pollution to help avoid second coronavirus peak, MPs urge
- 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) The Economist: The COVID and climate crises are connected
- (New) Houston Chronicle: Houston’s hot weather alone not enough to squelch COVID-19
- (New) Cleveland.com: Hot summer weather helps slow COVID-19 cases as Ohio reopens
- (New) World Economic Forum: The COVID-19 recovery can be the vaccine for climate change
- (New) The Asia Foundation: COVID-19 vs. Climate Change: What Can We Learn?
- (New) VOX: How South Korea, France, and Italy are using the COVID-19 response to fight climate change
- Wired: How Is the Coronavirus Pandemic Affecting Climate Change?
- WebMD: COVID-19 Cases Drop in Warm Weather, But Not Much
- Bay News: Coronavirus Changing Hurricane Preparations
- 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
Weather API, Tools, and Research Opportunities
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Weather API:
- Weather APl: Free global weather of things API and air quality API for COVID-19 research purposes
- Weather Source API: Free API open for research to visualize weather’s potential effects on COVID-19
- Aeris Weather: Complimentary API access is available for COVID-19 researchers
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Tools:
- IBM: Interactive COVID-19 reported cases and incident maps
- IBM: Global Coronavirus cases by country
- RK4 Integrator: Epidemic calculator
Events
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Events, Webinars, AMAs, Hackathons and more:
- UC San Diego: 5/14 – COVID-19 impact on energy and climate webinar
- UC Berkeley: Berkeley Conversations – Equity, health inequities and climate change
- Australia Marine Conservation Society: 4/25 – Climate and Covid 19 in Australia webinar
- Brookings: Webinar: Confronting climate change in the global COVID-19 recovery
- SEI: COVID-19 and climate change webinar
- Solstice: Climate Change and Covid – 19
- MIT: COVID-19, climate, and the clean economy webinar
- MedAct: Climate, health and COVID-19 webinar
- University of Colorado Boulder: 5 takeaways from Colorado climate education webinar
- Penn State: Collaborating in a Crisis: How to Work with Other Farms to Weather COVID-19 Webinar
- Harvard: Coronavirus, Climate Change, and the Environment
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) Hackathon: Coming soon!