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Israel-Lebanon
IDF in Lebanon Ground Attack
Israel has said its troops have entered Lebanese territory to destroy Hezbollah operations and has given evacuation warnings to 27 villages near the Israel-Lebanon border. Hezbollah has been regularly launching missiles at northern Israel since the attack by its allies Hamas in October 2023, and the subsequent Israeli bombardment of Gaza. Besides this open incursion, Israel claims to have carried out over 70 secret missions in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah in the preceding months, while Hezbollah claims Israel has not entered Lebanese territory now or in the past year. Hezbollah is one of a few militant factions in the Middle East supported by the Iranian government, along with Hamas in Gaza and the Houthis in Yemen, with which Israel has been directly at odds since the Hamas attack.
This map depicts locations in southern Lebanon that have been given an evacuation warning by the Israeli Defense Forces. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: New York Times
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United States
Chemical Plant Fire in Georgia
Residents of a Georgia county were asked to shelter in place after a fire and ongoing chemical release erupted at a pool-cleaning product plant east of Atlanta on Sunday. The fire started around 5:00am on Sunday when a sprinkler malfunction caused water to come into contact with chlorine, a water-reactive chemical, causing a small fire and a large plume of smoke. Though the initial fire was controlled around noon, it reignited as chemicals were being removed from the building. The fire was fully extinguished between 4:00 and 5:00pm. As an associated chemical reaction continued to send a gaseous plume over the area Sunday night, around 17,000 residents near the plant in Conyers, Georgia, were under mandatory evacuation orders. The shelter-in-place advisory for over 90,000 residents of Rockdale County was valid through midnight.
This map depicts the shelter-in-place and evacuation zones in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Daily Mail UK
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World
New Subduction Zone Discovery
In a new Science Advances study, scientists uncovered evidence of an ancient seafloor that sank deep into the Earth during the age of dinosaurs. Researchers used seismic imaging techniques to peer deep into Earth’s mantle in the East Pacific Rise (a tectonic plate boundary on the floor of the southeastern Pacific Ocean). They found an unusually thick area in the mantle transition zone, a region typically located between 254 and 410 miles (410-660 km) below the Earth’s surface. This thickened area is like a fossilized fingerprint of an ancient piece of seafloor that subducted into the Earth around 250 million years ago. With seismic mapping, the scientists were able to create detailed reconstructions of the structures deep within the mantle. What the team found surprised them—material was moving through Earth’s interior much more slowly than previously thought, with the mantle transition zone acting like a barrier.
This map depicts the East Pacific Rise plate boundary, where the ancient seafloor was found. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What plateau is called the “Third Pole” because its ice fields contain most fresh water outside the polar regions?
A: Tibetan Plateau
Located at the intersection of South, Central, and East Asia, the massive Tibetan Plateau is often considered to be Earth’s “Third Pole” because it contains the largest ice mass outside the polar regions. A land of large glaciers, permafrost, and heavy snow, the plateau feeds a vast network of rivers, including major waterways like the Ganges, Indus, Mekong, Yangtze, and Yellow. These rivers, which together make up Asia’s “water tower,” provide water to nearly 40% of the world’s population. Tibetan Plateau affects atmospheric circulation and drives weather patterns, such as the Asian summer monsoon, around the planet.
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Q: What river is considered the cradle of Chinese civilization?
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