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Pakistan
Deadly Monsoon Floods Kill 759
At least 759 people have died in Pakistan since June 26 as a result of devastating floods and associated landslides caused by monsoon rains. A further 993 have been reported injured, while dozens of people remain missing. Additionally, nearly 4,000 homes have been destroyed alongside critical infrastructure. On Wednesday, Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi, in the southern Sindh province, was hit by torrential rain. The hardest-hit area is the Buner district in the northwestern mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where more than 200 people have been killed since August 14. Forecasters and local authorities have warned torrential rains are expected to continue until Saturday. Across India and Pakistan, 1,860 people have been killed so far by this year’s monsoon season, which has featured heavier than usual rain downpours and cloudbursts. The monsoon season typically lasts from June until September.
This map depicts the impacts of monsoon season flooding in Pakistan, including the number of deaths and homes destroyed by province since June 26. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Al Jazeera
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Israel-Palestine
E1 Settlement Advances
A plan to begin the building of new homes for Israeli settlers in the E1 zone of the West Bank was approved by a military committee yesterday. The project will build around 3,400 homes in the zone, and would effectively bisect the West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem. The settlement plan had been held up for years, with the United States and European powers objecting to the plan as a violation of international law and undermining the two-state solution being sought to resolve the conflict between Israel and Palestine. The governments of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, as well as the U.N.’s Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, called on Israel to reverse the plan. Israel contends the settlements enhance security against terrorism.
This map depicts the West Bank and the respective areas of control between the Palestinian Authority, Israel, and Israeli settlements, including the newly-approved E1 settlement bloc. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: The Guardian
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Africa
AU Advocates for Map Accuracy
The African Union (AU), an organization representing 55 countries, has launched the Correct the Map campaign to promote the 2018 Equal Earth Projection as the new default for governments, international organizations, and education. A projection is a way to map the three-dimensional Earth in two dimensions. The Mercator projection, which has been the default map since the 16th century, disproportionately enlarges the areas around the poles and distorts continent sizes for the purposes of navigation. According to the AU, the Mercator projection makes Africa seem marginal, despite being the world’s second-largest continent by area. Unlike the Mercator, the Equal Earth projection displays the true relative sizes of countries and continents and suggests a globe with its rounded edges. Many organizations have already adopted the Equal Earth map, including NASA, National Geographic, and the World Bank.
This map depicts the difference between the Mercator Projection and the Equal Earth Projection. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What country is home to the “Pole of Cold,” a village which is the coldest permanently inhabited settlement?
A: Russia
Located near the Arctic Circle, the city of Oymyakon, Russia, is the coldest inhabited place on Earth. Winter temperatures average around -58°F (-50°C) — and only 500 residents brave the chill. Most of these residents are Indigenous people known as the Yakuts, but some ethnic Russians and Ukrainians also live in the area. There’s just one store in Oymyakon, but there is also a post office, a bank, a gas station, and even a small airport. The town also has its own schools. Every structure in Oymyakon is built on underground stilts to counter the instability of the permafrost that runs 13 feet (4 m) deep. A nearby thermal spring remains just unfrozen enough for farmers to bring their livestock to drink.
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Q: What river flows through more countries than any other (10 in total)?
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