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Satellite observations show that students of color in the U.S. attend public schools with higher concentrations of air pollution than their white peers.
NASA Earth Observatory animations by Wanmei Liang, using data from Cheeseman, Michael, et al. (2022). Student demographic data from the National Center for Education Statistics. NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Photograph courtesy of Keerti Gopal. Story by Adam Voiland.
Published November 1, 2023
Data acquired 2017 - 2019