Environmental News For The Week Ending 13December 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:
Summary:
New US Covid cases were at a record 247,737 on Friday on the worldometers site that I watch; that would be nearly 40% of all the new infections reported worldwide on that day as per that site...However, the Johns Hopkins dashboard is showing a record 1,489,000 new Covid infections worldwide on that date, more than double any previous one day total....I have to assume that's in error, and my best guess would be that somehow the data was entered twice, and they'll eventually correct it...Regardless, whatever the actual global totals are, we're still seeing increasing record infection rates in both the US and worldwide...Over a million and a half Americans were infected with Covid-19 last week alone; 10.2% higher than the week before; the week over week increase worldwide is at about half that rate...