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Azerbaijan & Armenia
Border Clashes Kill 7
Seven Azerbaijani soldiers were killed and an additional ten wounded in a border clash between Azerbaijan and Armenia yesterday. The event appears to be the worst case of violence between the two countries since last year when a six-week war over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh resulted in the deaths of 6,600. On Tuesday evening, the fighting had ceased as Russian authorities corresponded with Azerbaijani and Armenian officials, urging them to stop. The two countries have been in a decades-long conflict over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, an area which lies in Azerbaijan, but under the control of Armenian separatists.
This map depicts land and border disputes between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Yahoo! News
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Canada
Deadly Flooding in Vancouver
A once-in-a-century weather event that hit the Pacific northwest on Monday has caused deadly flooding, severely impacted transportation access, and has left thousands without power in and around Vancouver, British Columbia. At least one person is confirmed dead and several others are feared dead as well. Transportation authorities reported the event as the “worst weather storm in a century.”
This map depicts the location of floods across the Vancouver area. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Graphic News
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Space
Planet Nine Possibly Sighted
Astronomers reveal a mysterious object observed by a satellite in 1983 may be the first known sighting of “Planet Nine,” a theorized ninth planet in our solar system. Scientists observed in 2016 that objects in the Kuiper Belt were behaving as if they were affected by the gravitational pull of a larger object that could be as large as 10 times the size of the Earth. Astronomers recently went back to archived materials to see if any evidence for Planet Nine might have been observed but missed at the time. They found an object on an image taken by the IRAS satellite in the first of ten years that it scanned space in far-infrared. While not definitive proof of Planet Nine’s existence, the image builds evidence for the theory as scientists continue their search.
This map depicts the orbital path and potential size of the theorized “Planet Nine” at the far limits of our solar system. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: As of 2021, with 14.6% or $486.6B in total trade, which country is the United States’ largest trading partner?
A: Mexico
While the pandemic initially slowed cargo trade between the U.S. and Mexico, Mexico is the top trading partner for the second time ever. Trade between the two countries is estimated to be over $486 billion so far this year. The geographic nature of the U.S.-Mexico land border plays a vital role in the distribution of trade by air, vessel, and land. Only 1.3% of trade was by air and only 4.4% by ocean. Most trade cargo comes through the land border in Texas. As trade grows between the two countries, Texas cities are eager to increase the capacity of imports and exports by adding lanes and improving rapid access to the interstate system.
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Q: Happy GIS Day! In 1963, in an attempt to merge natural resource data, who pioneered the first computerized GIS in the world and enabled their national government to create a land-use management program?
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