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United States
Racial and Ethnic Inequity
This interactive map by The New York Times identifies the race or ethnicity with the highest coronavirus rate in each county, and reveals Black and Latino people across all age groups, including urban, suburban, and rural areas, have been disproportionally affected by COVID-19 across the country. In several counties, Native American communities also experienced much higher levels of infection than white communities. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Latino and African-American residents have been three times as likely to contract the virus than white residents, and almost twice as likely to die in comparison.
This map depicts the race or ethnicity with the highest rate of COVID-19 in each U.S. county. All COVID-19 updates will be displayed in a red box.
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Mexico
Student Remains Identified
Six years after forty-three students disappeared in the Mexican city of Iguala, bone fragments of one of the missing students has been discovered and identified near the city of Cocula. Authorities traced the remains to Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre, who is now the second member of the group to be officially listed as deceased. The students were traveling to Iguala for a protest, and while returning were stopped and shot by local police, who turned them over to the Guerreros Unidos, a criminal gang. The original investigation was described as “deeply flawed” and restarted by order of the president last year. The bone fragments, belonging to at least two people, were found a half mile away from where the original investigation claimed they should have been. The man who led the original investigation is wanted for arrest, and thought to have fled Mexico.
This map depicts the cities of Iguala, where the students went missing and Cocula, where the remains were found. Click on the map to expand.
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Graphic Source: New York Times
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World
Global Temperatures Rising
According to new climate research by the World Meteorological Organization, there is a 20% chance global temperatures will rise more than 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels in the next five years. Research also predicts that the rising average temperature will warm the Arctic quicker than the rest of the world, cause more storms across the Atlantic, and lead to drier climates in South America, southern Africa, and Australia. The research emerges nearly five years after world leaders adopted the Paris Agreement, an accord to reduce global carbon emissions so warming would not exceed 1.5 degrees, and curb the worst impacts of climate change.
This map depicts the future predictions of temperature, sea level pressures, and precipitation patterns if the world average temperatures rise above 1.5 degrees Celsius. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Due to its location in a highly active seismic area, which nation records the most earthquakes per year, at an average of 1,500?
A: Japan
Due to its location at the intersection of the Pacific, Eurasian, North American, and Phillipine Sea tectonic plates, Japan consistently experiences high levels of seismic activity. The country is also home to the densest seismic monitoring network in the world, and thus is able to identify and record many earthquakes and tectonic activity.
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Q: Up to 70% of which African nation’s land is comprised of the Kalahari Desert?
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