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China
Record Low Yangtze Rainfall
China’s Yangtze river basin hit a record low for summer rainfall since 1961 as of this August. For many big cities like Shanghai, Chongqing, and Sichuan, the Yangtze River is a lifeline that provides drinking water, energy, and irrigation. This year’s drought around the basin has negatively impacted the regional climate, agricultural activities, and hydroelectric power generation. Yangtze River’s receding waters has also affected the surrounding lakes that it feeds. China’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang, has suffered a 75 percent loss of water.
This map depicts the amount of rainfall this August around the Yangtze river basin, which has hit a record low for the summer. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: BBC
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Bangladesh – Myanmar
Five Years Since Rohingya Flight
Five years have passed since the military crackdown in Myanmar forced 700,000 of the Rohingya ethnic minority to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. Adding to the Rohingya population already living in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar region, the one million refugees have little reason to return to their former homes in Myanmar, and almost entirely live in fenced-in camps with few to no job opportunities and frequent outbreaks of disease and devastating fires. The Rohingya are a mostly Muslim minority who have lived in Myanmar (formerly Burma) for centuries, yet the government of Myanmar doesn’t recognize them as an official ethnic group and bars them from attaining citizenship, making the Rohingya the world’s largest identified stateless community.
This map depicts the regions inhabited by the major ethnic groups of Myanmar, including the Rohingya minority, with many having to seek refuge in neighboring Bangladesh. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Al Jazeera,
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Norway
Ancient Arrow Uncovered
Archaeologists in Norway are hailing the discovery of an arrow dating back hundreds of years before the Vikings. The arrow was found left over from a patch of glacial ice that melted in the Jotunheimen Mountains. The find is special for the near-perfect preservation of the iron arrowhead and pine wood shaft, though the fletching (the feathers fashioned into fins at the rear of the arrow) is mostly gone. The arrow was found 6,500 feet (1,981 m) above sea level in an area still known for reindeer hunting today. The arrow would have likely been lost by its owner after a missed shot. Accelerating glacial melting has resulted in an increasing number of archaeological finds in Norway and around the world.
This map depicts the location where a 1,500-year-old arrow was found in the Jotunheimen Mountains of Norway, after being uncovered by receding glacial ice. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What nation is both the world’s fourth most populous nation and also the largest Islamic country?
A: Indonesia
Extending east to west in Southeast Asia, Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world, having five major islands and about 30 smaller clusters of islands. Of the 17,508 islands within the giant archipelago, about 6,000 of them are inhabited. The island of Java is home to over half of the country’s population and the capital city of Jakarta on its northwest coast. While Sumatra is a larger land mass, the island holds about one-third of its people. Of Indonesia’s over 253 million residents, about 86% of them are Muslim, and because the region is highly diverse ethnically, the islands are home to over 580 languages and dialects. The large island nation plays a distinct role in the world’s geography, straddling the equator, connecting the Pacific and Indian oceans, and bridging the continents of Asia and Australia.
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Q: Utah’s Zion Canyon took millions of years to be carved out by which river?
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