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India
COVID Affecting Most Families
According to a map and analysis by India Today, one in every 55 people in India is experiencing a COVID-19 infection. In some states, including Goa on the western coast, and Delhi, the proportion rises to one in every 12 or 13 people, respectively. Analysts estimate one in every three families the capital city of New Delhi is experiencing at least one COVID-19 infection. In the last 24 hours, India has reported 276,110 new coronavirus infections and 3,874 deaths. A chain of laboratories reported nearly two-thirds of people tested showed exposure to COVID-19, indicating an uncontrolled spread of the virus.
This map depicts the cases per capita across India. Click on the map to learn more.
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Iceland
Tensions Mount before Meeting
The member nations of the Arctic Council are meeting today in Reykjavik as the United States and its NATO allies have expressed concern about Russian intentions in the area. Speaking from Reykjavik on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed concern “about some of the increased military activities in the Arctic.” The Arctic Council was founded in 1996 by Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the U.S. to promote peaceful cooperation in the Arctic Circle. As the Arctic ice sheet recedes further due to climate change, opportunities have expanded for new shipping routes and extraction of fossil fuels and minerals from the arctic sea bed.
This map depicts the competing territorial claims in the Arctic. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: BBC
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World
Internal Displacement Record
Fifty-five million people worldwide were living displaced from their homes within their own countries at the end of 2020, setting a new annual record. A new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council stated that of the 55 million total displaced, 40.5 million were newly displaced during the year. Over 30 million of the newly-displaced in 2020 were forced out of their homes by natural disasters like floods, storms, and wildfires, while the rest were attributed to conflict and violence, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, and Ethiopia. That the displacement figure reached a new high when COVID-19 restrictions hampered data collection and caused the displaced to avoid emergency shelters for fear of infection is “particularly concerning,” said IDMC director Alexandra Bilak.
This map depicts the places and causes for internal displacement across the world. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Covering over 4,500,000 square miles (11.7 million sq km), which country has the largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ)?
A: France
An exclusive economic zone (EEZ) refers to marine area extending up to 200 nautical miles from a country’s coast that allows that country sole access to resource exploration and use under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Because of it many overseas territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world, comprising about 8% of the world’s total EEZs. The United States’ EEZ is the second largest in the world, totaling 4,383,000 square miles (11.4 million sq km).
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Q: Which country has lost the most territory due to sea level rise?
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