Environmental News For The Week Ending 09 May 2019
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Major coronavirus metrics continue to head lower in the US, and now also globally. New cases in the US during the week ending May 8th were down 18.6% from new cases during the week ending May 1st, and are now down 83.3% from the January peak; this week also saw fewer new cases than any week since September. This week s US deaths attributed to Covid were 6.8% lower than the prior week s, and down 80.5% from the January high; US Covid deaths are now at the lowest rate since since the second week of July.
By Zuri Anderson
May 4, 2021
Local 10.
Reporters said this incident has been happening over several weeks in the same Coconut Grove neighborhood, and neighbors are demanding answers.
What makes the situation stranger is that oxygen levels were normal in these ponds, and there are no reports of mosquito infestations, either, according to
Jen Wheeler. Wheeler is the owner of Pond Doctors, which services fish ponds all over South Florida. To have them suddenly pass away for some unknown reason is really scary because you also start to think what else is this affecting, she told reporters. Other than the fish that we are in love with.
Fish and other wildlife continue dying in Coconut Grove, officials working to uncover why
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Testing ongoing as fish keep turning up dead in Coconut Grove
COCONUT GROVE, Fla. – There is a great deal of mystery surrounding what may be killing koi fish and other wildlife in Coconut Grove.
Lee Marks and his family woke up to even more dead fish Sunday morning after showing Local 10 News’ Louis Aguirre dozens the previous day, in a pond they’ve had for 20 years.
“It’s something in the water, a toxin, a pollutant, because that doesn’t happen all at once,” Marks said.
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, May 02, 2021 - 11:15 PM
Something fishy is happening in Miami as thousands of pricy koi fish have turned up dead at several homes and a city park. It s more than fish, birds, plants, and wild raccoons are mysterious dying, according to local news WPLG Local 10.
The epicenter of the thousands of dead koi is happening in Coconut Grove, a shoreline neighborhood in Miami bordering Biscayne Bay. Homeowners in the community report thousands of their fish have all of a sudden died. We re not talking about a couple of fish or even hundreds of fish. We re talking about thousands of fish that, all of a sudden, have turned up dead, said WPLG.