The team behind the pollution-monitoring tool Plume Pittsburgh is taking its models global. Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab partnered with the nonprofit Climate TRACE to build an animated map that shows how particle pollution spreads from 9,560 industrial sources in 2,572 urban areas around the world.
The map shows orange dots popping up from places such as power plants, refineries, and mines and spreading over nearby cities. In some cases, the map is nearly covered in orange dots. Climate TRACE, co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, has developed a global inventory of more than 660 million sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
