Environmental News For The Week Ending 16 May 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately:
Covid seemed to drop out of the news this week; usually, I ll see virus stories on news sites most read or recent news lists; this week I had to go looking for them. Part of the reason was that the East Coast fuel pipeline shutdown dominated the headlines, but the underlying reason is that new cases in the US and globally are falling rapidly, even in India. And the news organizations are reluctant to cover a story that bleeds less this week than it did last week.
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Disaster management: Govt allocates one million rupees per DS division
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4 dead, over 42K affected by heavy rains, floods in SL
IANS 3 hours ago © IANS 4 dead, over 42K affected by heavy rains, floods in SL
Colombo, May 16 (IANS) At least four people have died and over 42,000 others affected by heavy rains and subsequent floods in Sri Lanka due to the formation of a super cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, the country s Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the DMC said the deaths had been a result of severe flooding, reports Xinhua news agency.
Over 200 houses had been fully or partially damaged, while 175 people were housed in temporary shelters.