By: LEE YING SHAN and ALEXI DEMETRIADI / 27 May 2020

While the global pandemic has been devastating for economies and lives across the world, it has been undeniably good for the environment. As cities across Southeast Asia have shut down, air quality has steadily and uniformly improved – that is in all but one city

A Filipino boy manoeuvres on smoke from a burning trash along the Manila bay in the Philippines on the eve of World Earth day on 21 April 2020. Photo: Francis R. Malasig/EPA-EFE

Sources: https://southeastasiaglobe.com/air-quality-southeast-asia-covid/