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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.
4 dead, over 42,000 affected by heavy rains, flooding in Sri Lanka
Xinhua
16 May 2021, 02:05 GMT+10
COLOMBO, May 15 (Xinhua) At least four people had died and over 42,000 others had been affected by days of strong winds and heavy rains which lashed the country due to the formation of a super cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, Sri Lanka s Disaster Management Center (DMC) said in its latest weather report Saturday. According to the DMC, the deaths had been a result of severe flooding. Over 200 houses had been fully or partially damaged, while 175 people belonging to 42 affected families were housed in temporary shelters. The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) also issued a landslide warning for several districts in the country including the capital Colombo and the south. The NBRO requested people living in high-risk areas to move to safer grounds.
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