Environmental News For The Week Ending 03 April 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:
There hasn t been much change in the trajectory of either US Covid metric: new cases continue to increase at a modest pace, while US Covid deaths continue to fall. New cases of Covid confirmed over the week ending April 3rd were 5.9% higher that those confirmed over the week ending March 27th, and 15.9% higher than those of the week ending March 20th, while US Covid deaths during the week ending April 3rd were 12.2% lower than the prior week, and down 74.7% from the peak week in late January.
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TAKING IT FROM THE TOP U.S. companies are under intense pressure to diversify their executive ranks. Shareholders this year have filed a record number of demands for racial equity audits and more transparency around hiring and promotions.
Destruction of tropical forests sees sharp increase in 2020
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Destruction of tropical forests sees sharp increase in 2020
An area of pristine rainforest the size of the Netherlands was burned or hacked down last year, as the destruction of the planet s tropical forests accelerated despite a global economic slowdown, according to research Wednesday.
The worst losses were in Brazil, three times higher than the next highest country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a report from Global Forest Watch based on satellite data.
Across the tropics, the study registered the destruction in 2020 of 4.2 million hectares (10.4 million acres) of primary forest – 12 per cent higher than the year before.