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Satellite image captures a hyperconnected English Channel at work

28 August 2019

Will this satellite image of a crowded, connected, English Channel with busy shipping routes, grids of wind farms and scuttling ferries change in future?

These strange lines of cloud are seeded by pollution from ships

21 February 2018

Much as an aeroplane leaves contrails, streaks of white cloud condense onto the tiny particles thrown into the air by the exhausts of travelling ships

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Satellite image captures a hyperconnected English Channel at work

These strange lines of cloud are seeded by pollution from ships

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