Environmental News For The Week Ending 16January 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 infections for the week ending January 16th were 8.5% below those of the week ending January 9th, so it appears that the incidence of new cases mat have peaked and is turning down, at least for the time being. One caveat to that, though, is that we don t know how many of the prior week s cases were from reports that had been delayed over the holidays. For a check on that, we can compare new cases from the week ending January 16th to those from the week ending December 19th, two weeks which sh
Flooding in Sungai Padi district of Narathiwat on Tuesday night. (Photo by Waedao Harai)
Authorities are evacuating flood-residents in Yala, as higher than average precipitation across the three southernmost border provinces since Monday have inundated over 18,000 households in the region.
As a result of the continued rain, the Sai Buri River in Yala broke its banks, inundating homes and farmlands across Raman district.
Soldiers used boats to evacuate residents and their properties, as the main road in Rueso district which connects Yala and Narathiwat was cut off by the flood.
Local government agencies also distributed food and other aid to flood-affected households in the area.