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Czechia-Poland
Central Europe Inundated
Soldiers and civilians across Central Europe have mobilized to save towns and homes in the face of some of the heaviest flooding in years. The worst-hit areas are around the border of Czechia and Poland, but heavy rains and flooding have also affected Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary. At least 20 people have been killed, with 15,000 evacuated from their homes in Czechia. Buses have been deployed in southern Poland and are standing at the ready to evacuate residents. River flooding appears to have peaked in the worst-hit areas of Czechia, but conflicting weather reports mean authorities in Poland have to wait a few more days see how the crisis plays out. Communities along the Danube in Hungary further south are urgently preparing sandbag barriers along the river as they await the cresting of the floodwaters predicted in coming days.
This map depicts the rainfall forecast in the areas of Central Europe facing devastating flooding. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: ReliefWeb
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Venezuela
‘Unprecedented’ Repression
Independent U.N. human rights experts said in a new report Tuesday that Venezuela’s government has intensified the use of “harshest and most violent” tools of repression following the disputed July presidential election. Electoral authorities awarded the election to Maduro, without showing all the vote tallies. More than two dozen people died in protests with another 2,400 arrested. The U.N. fact-finding mission, which interviewed 383 people remotely or in third countries as it is denied access to Venezuela, said that authorities tried to dismantle the opposition, block independent information, and stop protests. The report denounced rights violations including arbitrary detentions, torture, and sexual and gender-based violence by the country’s security forces. According to the mission, 24 out of 25 deaths were caused by gunshot wounds, mostly to the neck.
This map depicts the locations of the 23 protesters and bystanders, and 1 security force member, reportedly killed during protests in Venezuela after the July 28th, 2024, election. Click on the map to learn more.
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Mars
Gravity Field Map of Mars
A new map derived from gravity readings taken by NASA has revealed massive structures underneath Mars’ lost ocean. This finding integrates models and data from multiple missions. There is also data on the active processes beneath Olympus Mons, the Solar System’s largest known volcano. The findings show Mars has many hidden structures. However, the features in the northern region remain a mystery because they’re covered in a sediment layer deposited in an ancient seabed. This density map shows that the objects in northern Mars are denser than their surrounding areas. The unknown features could be volcanic in origin or compacted material due to previous impacts. To build on this data, scientists have proposed the Martian Quantum Gravity (MaQuls) to map Mars’ gravity field in detail using techniques that have already been used to study the Earth and Moon.
This map depicts Mars’s gravity field. The circled locations are the unknown structures scientists are studying Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What country has the world’s largest proportion of freshwater lakes?
A: Canada
Canada has the largest number of lakes in the entire world, with a total of 879,800 lakes. This is more lakes than all other countries combined! In fact, Canada contains about 62% of the world’s 1.42 million lakes. Of this number, Canada boasts 563 large freshwater lakes, and shares four of the five Great Lakes with the United States, containing 18% of fresh (lake) water in the world. Almost 9% (344,080 sq mi [(891,163 sq km]) of Canada’s total area is covered by freshwater. However, most of Canada’s freshwater drains to the north, away from the 85 per cent of the population that lives within 186 miles (300 km) of the southern border. This makes harnessing and managing its water resources a significant challenge, both nationally and within individual provinces and territories.
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Q: The Torres Strait lies between Australia and what island?
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