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Learning from Black Swan events

05 May 2020
Taken from the May 2020 issue of Physics World.

With COVID-19 causing thousands of deaths worldwide and a global economic crash, Christopher Lavers says that we should have learned from previous crises 

Clearing the air: Airborne nitrogen dioxide (NO2) over China has plummeted from levels seen on 1 January due to the coronavirus and the related economic slowdown.
On 20 March 2010 Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted, resulting in a huge ash cloud that h

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Christopher Lavers is a space-sensing and atmospheric physicist at the University of Plymouth, UK. He is the author of 15 books, including Principles of Maritime and Terrestrial Earth Observation (Reeds, 2019)
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