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World
Coronavirus Travel Restrictions
Global travel is being disrupted as coronavirus continues to spread across the globe. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has advised travelers to avoid all non-essential travel to China and South Korea, and issued lower-level warnings for Japan, Italy, Iran, and Hong Kong. Countries are implementing various local and international travel restrictions to reduce the spread of the virus: Saudi Arabia has closed its borders to foreign pilgrims visiting Mecca, Italy has enforced quarantines on several towns near Milan, and Japan is closing public schools beginning next week.
This real-time interactive map depicts current CDC travel warnings for coronavirus. Click on the map for the most recent updates.
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Graphic Source: New York Times
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United Kingdom
Airport Expansion Ruled Illegal
A proposed airport expansion at London’s Heathrow Airport has been declared illegal due to it potential climate impacts. The court of appeals in the U.K. ruled this week that the ministers advancing the airport expansion failed to consider the commitments of the national government to reach net zero emissions by 2050 under the Paris Climate Accord. Heathrow Airport currently serves 80 million passengers a year and is one of the busiest airports in the world. The expansion, proposed to be completed by 2028, would bring 700 additional planes per day resulting in a significant rise in carbon emissions. The court’s ruling is considered the first major legal decision based on the Paris Climate agreement, and could result in future challenges to high-carbon projects.
This map depicts the proposed expansion to the London Heathrow airport, now ruled illegal. Click on the map to learn more.
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Pakistan
Duck Deployment
In the continued fight against swarms of locusts in east Africa and southwestern Asia, China is reportedly preparing to deploy an estimated 100,000 ducks to neighboring Pakistan to help curb the swarms of crop-eating locusts. Pakistan declared an emergency earlier this month stating locust numbers were the worst the country has experienced in more than two decades. The legion of locust-eating waterfowl will be sent from the eastern province of Zhejiang following the earlier arrival of a team of Chinese agricultural experts to advise on how to tackle the infestation. Chinese agricultural experts stated a single duck can eat more than 200 locusts a day and be more effective than pesticides. In 2000, ducks were used in a similar infestation in the north-western Xinjiang with considerable effectiveness. Currently, swarms are devastating crops from Eastern Africa to South Asia.
This map depicts the location of locust swarms in the Middle East, Asia, and East Africa. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: Named after the French navigator Bruni d’Entrecasteaux, the D’Entrecasteaux Islands are part of which country?
A: Papua New Guinea
Lying across Ward Hunt Strait from the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea, the D’Entrecasteaux Islands are comprised of several volcanic islands. These include the three principal islands of Goodenough, Fergusson, and Normanby; and the smaller Sanaroa and Watoa. The islands have a combined land area of 1,213 square miles (3,142 square km) and are extremely mountainous, covered by dense jungle and contain a number of active geothermal fields.
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Q: With only 4.1 km of coastline, which country has the smallest oceanfront land among the coastal nations of the world?
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