Canada
Another Mass Grave Found
The discovery of new mass grave was announced at St. Eugene’s Mission School near Cranbrook, British Columbia yesterday. St. Eugene’s finding is the third mass grave uncovered in recent weeks, following the discovery of 751 at the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan last week and another 215 at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in late May. Mandated by the Canadian government and often run by the Roman Catholic Church, the schools separated indigenous children from their families and tribes as an effort at integration, but many children suffered physical and sexual abuse.
This map depicts the locations of recent discoveries of mass graves at former residential schools. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: CBC
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China
China Eradicates Malaria
The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially awarded China, the world’s most populous nation, a malaria-free certification. China had gone from 30 million malaria cases to zero in a remarkable and arduous 70-year endeavor. China used innovative treatments and tracking methods to help eradicate the disease from Mao Zedong’s secret military Project 523 in the 1950s to insecticide-treated nets deployed across the country in the 1980s. China is the first country in the WHO Western Pacific Region to receive this certification in over three decades following Brunei Darussalam in 1987, Singapore in 1982, and Australia in 1981. The country joins 40 others who have also been awarded a malaria-free certification from WHO.
This map depicts declining malaria cases across China between 2010 and 2017. Click on the map to learn more.
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World
Report Finds Rising Sea Levels
A new study published in Nature Communications found 410 million people will be at risk from sea-level rise by 2100. Researchers created the first-ever global elevation model of coastal areas around the world using the remote-sensing technique LiDAR. Currently, 267 million people worldwide live on land that is less than seven feet (2 m) above sea level, a number expected to increase significantly by the end of the century should sea level continue to rise as projected. The study found 62% of the most at-risk land is in the tropics, with Indonesia being home to the most at-risk land.
This map depicts the population density, land surface elevation, and projection if the sea level rises 1 meter of six of the most at-risk areas. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What country, covering 313 square miles (811 km sq), has territory located in all four hemispheres?
A: Kiribati
Kiribati’s land area may only be 313 square miles (811 km sq), but as it’s a unified collection of atolls in the central Pacific, it balloons to 1.4 million square miles (3.5 million km sq) when you factor in the territorial waters. With that large a piece of the Earth’s surface sitting over both the equator (separating the Northern and Southern hemispheres) and on the 180th meridian (separating East and West), that led to some creative arrangement of Kiribati’s time zones – and the International Date Line. Kiribati’s easternmost collection of islands, the Line Islands, sit in the time zone UTC +14.00. That’s two hours ahead of where the date line would be located astronomically speaking, meaning Kiribati is the first country in the world to celebrate the New Year.
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Q: With a Gini coefficient of 0.59, which city is considered to have the most unequal wealth distribution in the United States?
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