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Russia
Ukrainian Offense Advances
The Ukrainian military has continued to advance in its incursion into Russian territory, and last night made what may have been its largest-ever drone strike against Russia. Russia’s Defense Ministry claims to have destroyed 45 drones launched by Ukraine in Russian airspace, including 11 drones in the Moscow region. Russian sources reported and satellite photos have confirmed Ukraine has destroyed three critical bridges over the Seym River. This presents a significant obstacle to Russia in reinforcing its forces opposing Ukraine’s advance in the Kursk region. Continuing an earlier campaign to degrade Russia’s energy capacity, a Ukrainian strike also triggered a massive fire that has been burning for three days at an oil depot in the town of Proletarsk. While Ukraine’s successes in Russian territory have caught some analysts by surprise, Russian forces continue to slowly advance in eastern Ukraine, where they appear to be close to taking the town of Pokrovsk.
This map depicts the regions of Russia where the Russian Defense Ministry claims to have downed Ukrainian drones overnight. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Anadolu Agency
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Italy
Capsized Yacht Search Continues
Divers are continuing to search the wreck of the superyacht Bayesian, which capsized off the coast of Sicily in a violent storm on Monday morning. Fifteen people were rescued after the ship capsized and sank, and thus far, two bodies have been retrieved, while six people remain missing, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch. Despite the length of time since the ship’s sinking, authorities say the vessel’s design, which included several watertight compartments, and the speed with which the ship sank could mean there are air pockets where survivors may still be alive. Bayesian was brought down when it was caught in a waterspout, the marine equivalent of a tornado.
This map depicts the route of the superyacht Bayesian as it sailed off the coast of Sicily before sinking in an unexpectedly strong storm on Monday morning. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: The National
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Europe
Ice Age Demography & Climate
A new Science Advances study shows that climate change significantly influenced the demography of prehistoric humans. Using the largest dataset of human fossils from Ice Age Europe to date, the study details how prehistoric hunter-gatherers coped with climate change from 47,000 to 7,000 years ago. By choosing to analyze teeth, the research team had an unprecedented dataset of 450 prehistoric humans. A new method based on a machine learning algorithm enabled researchers to reconstruct complex prehistoric demographic events with morphological data. A new discovery is that some populations in Western Europe went extinct at the transition from the Middle to the Late Pleniglacial, the coldest period when populations dropped overall, and were replaced by a new population that migrated from Eastern Europe. After the Late Pleniglacial, when temperatures steadily rose again, populations began to grow again both in East and West.
This map depicts the spatial distribution of Ice Age Europeans divided into a West group and an East group over three time periods and in relation to an ice core record on the left, from 47,000 to 7,000 years ago. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: What two countries share the Tierra del Fuego archipelago?
A: Argentina and Chile
Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of the main island, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, with an area of 18,572 square miles (48,100 km sq), and a group of many islands, including Cape Horn and Diego Ramírez Islands. Tierra del Fuego is divided between Argentina, which controls the eastern part of the main island and a few small islands in the Beagle Channel, and Chile, which controls the remaining land area. The earliest known human settlement in Tierra del Fuego dates to approximately 8,000 BC. Settlement by those of European descent did not begin until the second half of the nineteenth century, at the height of the Patagonian sheep farming boom and of the local gold rush.
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Q: Where in the US can you find barrier islands and shifting sandbars called the “Graveyard of the Atlantic”?
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