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A single day of attacks on 4 Iranian oil refineries produced as much sulfur dioxide (SO₂as a volcanic eruption, a brand-new analysis discovers.

Remote picking up from Chinese and European meteorological satellites has actually exposed that fires triggered by Israeli airstrikes introduced on Iranian refineries and storage centers on March 7 gave off an overall of around 33,000 lots (29,800 metric lots) of SO₂ by March 8. The harmful gas cloud had actually taken a trip approximately 1,240 miles (2,000 kilometers) by March 9, reaching as far as East Asia, according to a research study released Tuesday (May 26) in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

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