Only 5% of the entire world’s population lives in the blue shaded regions
For comparison, another 5% lives in the red shaded area.
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Major medieval cities: >20.000: Liibeck, Sevilla, Toulouse, Magdeburg, Utrecht, Wroclaw, Amiens, Augsburg, Niirnberg >30.000: Gdansk, Barcelona, Roma, Avignon, Marseille, Brussel
Read more: Europe’s biggest cities in 1400Mapping Hate Crimes in Moscow
Human rights workers in Russia have unveiled a map of all the recorded hate crimes in Moscow in recent years.
Read more: Mapping Hate Crimes in MoscowInequality isn’t just about money; it’s also about where you live
A new interactive map from the Urban Institute highlights the poorest and most affluent neighborhoods across the U.S. The map
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Greenland under the ice
The Greenland ice sheet coating 1.7 million square kilometers or about 660 thousand square miles, approximately about 80 percent of the surface of Greenland. If the whole 2.85 million cubic kilometers (684 thousand cubic miles) of ice were to melt, global sea levels would increase 7.2 meters or 24 feet.
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Airborne surveys of southern Alaska have helped scientists get a better handle on where ice is being lost from this
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