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Europe
Heatwave in Southeast Europe
Europe is currently experiencing an intense heatwave, with temperatures soaring above 104°F (40°C) across Southern Europe and the Balkan Peninsula. The extreme heat began in early July, and the pattern of record-breaking temperatures is expected to continue for another two weeks. Officials across Europe have issued health warnings, advising people to avoid going outside during peak hours of heat. Wildfires have broken out in several countries in southeastern Europe, caused by the extended dry and warm conditions combined with low humidity. In Greece and Italy, the unusually dry weather has also caused some water reservoirs to reach their lowest levels in a decade, forcing considerations of water restrictions during the peak tourism season.
This map depicts the maximum temperature anomalies in °C across Europe, where a prolonged heatwave continues to break records in the southeast regions. Click on the map to learn more.
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Peru
Remote Amazon Tribe Emerges
New video taken at the end of June has been released showing members of the isolated Mascho Piro tribe emerging from the rainforest in search of food near logging operations in the Peruvian Amazon. Considered the largest uncontacted tribe in the world, the Mascho Piro are estimated to have around 750 members living in the Madre de Dios region of southeast Peru. Their recent emergence highlights the impacts logging, mining, and other modern industrial activity have on Indigenous groups without the economic or technological resources to manage the effects of environmental degradation and climate change in their territory. Contact with isolated tribes also brings the risk of violence and modern diseases for which tribe members have no natural immunity. Sightings of the Mascho Piro are reportedly growing in Peru and nearby Brazil as the tribe attempts to avoid encroaching logging operations.
This map depicts the Madre de Dios region of southeast Peru, where the world’s largest uncontacted tribe, the Mascho Piro, recently was caught on camera emerging from the Amazon rainforest near logging operations. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: The U.S. Sun
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United States
Meteor Rattles New York City
Residents of New York City reported a loud boom and shaking Tuesday morning from a meteor flying across the sky. NASA’s Meteor Watch referred to the meteor as a “daylight fireball.” A daylight fireball is when a meteor is bright enough to be seen despite the Sun’s light illuminating the atmosphere. According to NASA, the meteor was initially observed around 40 miles (64 km) over the Upper Bay of New York Harbor, home to the Statue of Liberty. Before it disintegrated 29 miles (47 km) over downtown Manhattan, the asteroid traveled at a speed of 34,000 miles per hour (54,717 kph). The event did not produce any meteorites or space debris crashes on Earth’s surface. The meteor is responsible for the loud boom, but it did not cause the shaking reported by residents. NASA experts suggest the shaking was due to military activity nearby.
This map depicts the pathway of the meteor over New York City. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What Caribbean country’s name derives from the Indigenous Arawak word for “Mountainous Land”?
A: Haiti
The Republic of Haiti comprises the western three-eighths of the island of Hispaniola, west of the Dominican Republic. The generally rugged topography of central and western Hispaniola is reflected in Haiti’s name, which derives from the Indigenous Arawak place-name Ayti (“Mountainous Land”); about two-thirds of the total land area is above 1,600 feet (490 meters) in elevation. The backbone of the island of Hispaniola consists of four major mountain ranges that extend from west to east. Fertile valleys are interspersed between the mountain ranges forming vast areas of contrast between elevations in many areas throughout the territory.
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Q: What was the last British colony on the mainland of the Americas?
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