Environmental News For The Week Ending 09 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:
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.
Volcano de Fuego presents effusive eruption
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The scientific entity of the National Coordination System for Disaster Reduction –CONRED-, the National Institute of Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology –INSIVUMEH-, has reported on the eruptive phase of the Fuego volcano, which during this 14 February 2021, it is seen as an effusive eruption with pyroclastic flows.
INSIVUMEH, informs through its special volcanological bulletin No. BEFGO-019-2021 that the descent of a series of pyroclastic flows has been registered in the Fuego volcano, which represents the evolution of the activity towards a declared state of eruption. This series of pyroclastic flows have occurred in the direction of the Ceniza ravine starting at 10:20 am, lasting three minutes and moving several hundred meters.