Environmental News For The Week Ending 20December 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:
Some of the COVID-19 graphics presented in the above articles have been updated below.
Also, mentioned in two articles near the end of the disease collection is that there is a new strain of the virus circulating in southeast England that is 70% more infectious than the common strain. Since these news collections were assembled, England has locked down London and several European countries have restricted travelers from the country. I expect that we ll have more news on that in this coming week.
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Vehicles are stranded on the Kanetsu Expressway in Minamiuonuma, Niigata Prefecture, on Friday after heavy snow hit a wide area along the Sea of Japan coast. | KYODO
Kyodo, JIJI Dec 19, 2020
Niigata – All vehicles that had remained stranded on a long stretch of expressway north of Tokyo due to heavy snow were cleared by late Friday, according to the road’s operator, two days after the congestion first formed.
Massive Snowstorm Hits Japan, Trapping More Than 1,000 Cars On A Highway
Friday, December 18, 2020
A snowplow clears a path beside cars stranded Friday on the snow-covered Kan-etsu Expressway in the city of Minamiuonuma in Japan s Niigata prefecture.
STR / Jiji Press/AFP via Getty Images
It started with a large vehicle that got stuck in the deepening snow. That minor incident grew into a monster snow-covered traffic jam as more than 1,000 cars became stranded on a highway that runs between Tokyo and the city of Niigata along the Sea of Japan coast.
The snarl began Wednesday night, local news sources reported. The snow was extremely heavy, one driver told the public broadcaster NHK. As time went by, the cars got buried. I was really scared. I ve eaten all of my food and drinks. Now, to drink water, I have to melt snow I collect in a plastic bottle.
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