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Ethiopia
45 Civilians Massacred by Military
Ethiopia’s federal security forces killed at least 45 civilians in Amhara state in late January according to a new report by Ethiopian Human Rights Watch. Soldiers entered homes and murdered civilians, accusing them of involvement with Fano, an armed ethnic Amhara military group operating in the region. During Ethiopia’s two-year civil war Fano fought alongside federal forces against rebels in the neighboring Tigray region. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s announcement demanding the dismantling of state paramilitary groups last year prompted a new outburst of violence. The current crisis in Amhara is the most serious threat to Ethiopian security since a 2022 peace agreement ended the conflict in Tigray. Aid workers warn the recent outburst of violence threatens the delivery of humanitarian aid in a region facing starvation due to drought and the lingering effects of the war in the close-by Tigray region.
This map depicts the location of the Amhara region in Ethiopia, home to the ethnic Amhara military organization, Fano. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Yahoo! News
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Trinidad and Tobago
Shipwreck Polluting Waters
The Prime Minister of the Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago has declared a national emergency after a shipwreck of unknown origin began leaking oil that is polluting the country’s waters and beaches for miles. Little is known about the capsized vessel that appeared off the coast of the island of Tobago last week. It remains capsized and only the keel is visible. It may have wrecked further out to sea before drifting to its current location and if it was involved in illicit activities its origins may never be known. Without schematics for the vessel, specialists do not now how much oil might remain inside or how best to extract it. Divers have not been able to contain the leak, around 9 miles (15 km) of the coast are now coated with oil, and the situation has been described as “not under control.”
This map depicts the island of Tobago and the areas around its waters and shoreline that have been polluted by an oil spill from a capsized vessel that appeared off the coast last week. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Barron’s
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World
Migratory Animals in Decline
A landmark UN report published on Monday warns the world’s most vulnerable migratory species face an increasing risk of extinction. Migratory species play an essential role in protecting the Earth’s habitats by transferring nutrients, pollinating, and maintaining woodlands. Of the 1,189 creatures listed by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, or CMS, more than one in five are threatened. Of those species listed, 44% are undergoing population declines. Alarmingly, 97% of the world’s migratory fish are threatened with extinction. The report is the first inventory to assess the status of migratory species and how they are trying to survive in a world drastically changed by humans. It found the two biggest threats were overexploitation and loss of habitat from human activity, such as clearing land for roads, farming, and infrastructure.
This map depicts a section of the global network of Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs). IMMAs are shown in orange. Candidate IMMAs are shown in red, and Areas of Interest are in dark blue. Marine mammals are among the migratory species whose populations are under threat according to a new United Nations report. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: The eastern end of what sea marked an edge of the known world for the Greeks?
A: Black Sea
The Black Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and the Anatolian peninsula (Turkey) and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas and various straits. These waters separate eastern Europe and western Asia. Until the late sixth century BCE, the Greeks conceptualized the world as a series of concentric circles. Greece was surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea; the Mediterranean was surrounded by the three continents, and behind the continents was the Ocean, which surrounded the world disk. Here, one could encounter strange monsters: Homer’s Odyssey mentions a variety of them.
The edges of the continents were inhabited by savage monsters, the opposites of the civilized Greeks in the middle of the earth. The land at the eastern end of the Sea, Colchis, (now Georgia), marked for the Greeks an edge of the known world. In Greek mythology, Colchis was the home of Medea and the destination of the Argonauts, a land of fantastic wealth and sorcery.
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Graphic Source: Livius.org
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