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United States
Everglades Fire
As of last night, a wildfire has swept through a total of 18,500 acres of the eastern Everglades in Florida, threatening a major interstate. The Florida Forest Service confirmed that a lightning strike sparked the initial flames on Sunday evening, but its remote location prevented firefighters from suppressing it in time. Officials report that only 23% of the fire has been contained as of 4 p.m. EST yesterday. The flames are not threatening homes but Florida residents and visitors report falling ash nearby. Nearby cities Coral Springs and Parkland advised residents with respiratory problems to stay indoors. Another huge fire in Everglades National Park in 2008 burned over 40,000 acres of land.
This interactive map depicts the location of the fire in the eastern Everglades of Florida. Click on the map to expand.
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Graphic Source: GISsurfer
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Germany
Eurofighter Jets Collision
Two unarmed German Eurofighter jets collided mid-air in the country’s northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Monday around 2 p.m. local time, killing one of the pilots. The two aircraft crashed approximately 20 minutes after takeoff during an air combat exercise with a third, unharmed warplane. Following the accident, one of the planes went down in a forest and the other collapsed approximately 10 kilometers away near the village of Nossentiner Hütte. An armed forces spokesman said the circumstances of the crash have yet to be investigated, and recovery teams are searching for the jets’ flight recorders.
This map depicts the location of the accident. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: The Sun
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North America
Monarch Migration Threatened
New research has found that monarch butterflies bred in captivity have stunted navigational skills, flying in random directions instead of south when trying to migrate. Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies all over North America rely on their innate sense of direction to travel distances of up to 3,000 miles to sites in Mexico and California. There, they enjoy warm weather for the winter before journeying back to where they started in the spring. Many butterflies raised indoors have recently been released into the wild in the hopes of bolstering monarch populations, which have declined by more than 80% in the past decade. However, their diminished navigational abilities make researchers doubt the effectiveness of those efforts, for the populations will quickly die out if they cannot migrate.
This map depicts monarch migration patterns in North America. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Andorra, the world’s only co-principality (in which monarchical power is formally divided between two rulers), is situated between which two countries?
A: France and Spain
One of the smallest states in Europe, Andorra is located in the southern Pyrenees Mountains, surrounded by France on the northern side and Spain in the south. It is ruled by two Co-Princes: the Bishop of Urgell, Joan Enric Vives Sicília, and the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
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Q: At 8,323,146 acres, what is the largest National Park in the United States?
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