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Cameroon
Deadly Landslide Kills At Least 15
At least 15 people have died after a landslide in Cameroon’s capital city of Yaoundè engulfed members of a funeral party on Sunday. Rescue workers are still searching for dozens of others who remain missing. The disaster occurred as people gathered on a soccer pitch at the base of a 20-meter-high soil embankment. It is a tradition in Cameroon for communities to organize funeral events in town after the burial of their community members, and Sunday’s service was intended as a memorial tribute to five members of a local association who had died this year. The governor described the area where the landslide took place as a “very dangerous spot,” and on Monday, Cameroon’s Housing Ministry asked residents living in areas deemed at risk of landslides to immediately leave or be forced to relocate.

This map depicts the location of Cameroon's capital city Yaoundè, where a landslide swept through a funeral service, killing 15 people. Click on the map to learn more.
Further Reading: NY Times, Reuters, Barron's, VOA News
Graphic Source:  Al Jazeera
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China
Dissent over COVID Policy Grows
Protestors against the Chinese government's zero-COVID policy are taking to the streets from Shanghai to Beijing. The unprecedented wave of protests have been fueled by the deaths of ten people in an apartment building fire in Xinjiang, where residents were reportedly under tight movement restrictions to limit the spread of COVID. The protests are taking place in some of the biggest Chinese cities and university campuses, including Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Communication University of China in Nanjing. Some protests have been carried out peacefully while others were met with a forceful response from the police. In Shanghai, police officers attempted to disperse protests for three consecutive days by beating protestors and forming a human blockade on the roads.

This map depicts the location of the second day of street protests in Shanghai against COVID lockdown measures. Click on the map to learn more.
Graphic Source: The Guardian
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Space
Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Studied
A team of astronomers led by Northwestern University have developed a detailed inventory of galaxies releasing intense blasts of radiation, known as short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). The inventory is the most extensive one to date, pinpointing 84 galaxies that are home to SGRBs. SGRBs occur when two neutron stars collide, resulting in a brief flash of intense gamma radiation. About 85% of the study's SGRBs come from young and active star-forming galaxies. Scientists at Northwestern University believe using this catalog will allow researchers to further understand these rare bursts as well as what happens to stars after they die. 

This map depicts the host galaxies for short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) cataloged by astronomers. Click on the map to learn more.
Graphic Source: SciTech Daily
Friday's Answer
Q: Where was the wild turkey domesticated? 

A: North America 
Today's domesticated turkeys come from the species of wild turkey, which were native to the eastern and southwestern states and parts of Mexico. It is believed that the Mayans in southern Mexico were the first to domesticate turkeys, some 2,000 years ago. When Spanish explorers and settlers arrived in the Americas, they brought these domesticated turkeys back with them to Europe, and not long after, turkeys were being raised on farms across the globe. In the early 1900s, due to overhunting and habitat loss, wild turkey populations across the North American continent had seen huge losses in numbers. However, a program to re-introduce the wild birds to areas where they had disappeared has been successful, and since the 1940s, wild turkeys in America have been multiplying. 

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