Google, in partnership with the pollution mapping company Aclima, are set to release a trove of data that gives a researchers a granular look at local pollution levels. The project's data which in this case was taken from sensors roving the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and the California Central Valley, will enable researchers to view air pollution on a street-by-street basis. Those hotspots can be persistent for years,' CEO of Aclima, Davida Herzl, told The Verge. Herzl, who talked about Aclima and Google's project in a recent discussion titled Carbon, pollution and the current pandemic, also called attention to the fact that air pollution often affects people of color and impoverished people disproportionately. Google and Aclima plan to make the data available for free and also said that they plan to expand their data collection worldwide, starting with a fleet of 50 new cars to be deployed this year.

Source: Daily Mail June 25, 2020 22:22 UTC