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Nyiragongo dist. from Kinchassa
1500km
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Nyiragongo volcanoe type
composite
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Nyiragongo year that lava top speed (60kmph) kills 2k
1977
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Nyiragongo date
22 May 2021
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Nyiragongo 2021 dead
32
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Nyiragongo 2021 homes destroyed
over 1000
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Nyiragongo 2021 volcanoe observatory name
goma
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Dist. goma (also name of city) to Mt Nyiragongo
15km
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Lava stopped how far from goma city limit
less than 1km
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goma how many evacuated
2 million
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Nyiragongo plate tectonics facts
east african rift valley
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Nyiragongo place example
sake
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Nyiragongo how many fled to sake
180 000
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Nyiragongo sake - how much aid afforded
none
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Sulaweisi- city name
Palu City
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Palu city location
north west of sulaweisi, at the end of a long and narrow bay
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Palu city population
367 000
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Palu city fault name
Palu-Koro fault
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Sulaweisi plate names
sunda plate is squeezed by the phillipine and indo-australian plates
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Suaweisi earthquake magnitude
7.5
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sulaweisi distance palu city to epicentre
77km
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sulaweisi earthquake when
2018 20 sep 18 02
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sulaweisi early warning system
none
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number of organisations involved recovery operations over the next 3 years
over 170
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sulaweisi petobo - liquifaction - dead
2 000
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sulaweisi petobo - liquifaction hectares of land moved
184
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sulaweisi total dead
4340
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sulaweisi damages cost in USD
3bn
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sulaweisi total displaced
70 000
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sulaweisi destroyed shopping centre when
during peak hours
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what percentage of people affected were subsistance farmers
90
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3 000 schools damaged affecting x students
20 000
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Critical Infrastructure affected
Palu IV bridge ; seaport ; airport
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Palu koro fault type
srtike slip
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Trans-Amazonian Highway length
4 000km
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commmon amazon farming technique
slash and burn
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amazon minning companies
over 7 000
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minnig % brazillian exports
16
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what % of brazil deforestation due to ranching
80
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(BRAZIL) increase in herd size '93-'13
200
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HEP hectares flooded
36 000
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slash and burn years the field is useable
3 years
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(plant + animal + insect) species lost every day amazon
137
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330 indigenous tribe 1900 now ?
240
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rainforest have 5% land but x% biodiversity
50
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4 causes of aridity
continentality rainshadow cold ocean currents high pressure
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in one day the amazon transpires x tonnes of water
20 000 000
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tonnes of CO2 rainforests capture
5 000 000 000
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% pharmacuticles derived from rainforest ingredients
25
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amazon primary forest cover 2020 (in millions of hectares)
520
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MOJAVE annual rainfall varies from (xmm - ymm)
50 - 228
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MOJAVE mean temp deg C
15.2
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MOJAVE area
24 000km
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MOJAVE ADAPTATIONS big ears
jack rabbit
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MOJAVE ADAPTATIONS nocturnal
owls and bats
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MOJAVE ADAPTATIONS fly high to avoid heat
golden eagle
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MOJAVE ADAPTATIONS animal with large ears + water from food + nocturnal
kangaroo rat
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MOJAVE ADAPTATIONS tree with shallow roots , water in trunk + waxy leaves
joshua tree
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mean temprature amazon (deg C)
25
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leuven cost
1.4 million
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leuven location
south Dijle valley
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leuven prevented
100 yr flood event
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leuven nature reserve capacity
150 million m3
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egenhoven capacity
800 000 m3
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lueven technique
floodplain restoration
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lueven type of gate
sluice
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jubilee diversion channel places protected
Windsor + eton
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jubilee homes and buisnesses protected
3000 and 5000
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jubilee times used since built
over 30
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jubilee cost
330 million
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jubilee weir damaged cost to repair
680 000
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towns downstream not protected that suffer from increased flooding and higher insurance premiums
datchet
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Arenburg science park Site size
13 hectares
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Arenburg science park number employed
5 000
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innovation venture capitalist firm
cronos
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Arenburg science park cool scienc-y tech thing (its expensive)
bio-incubator
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Arenburg science park transport link
e40
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Arenburg science park time to airport
15 mins
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lueven is good to have Arenburg science park becasue its a
university town
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Madagascar GPD per capita
465
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Madagascar % below poverty line
90
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% work in subsistance farming Madagascar
80
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% income food (more than not figure) Madagascar
70
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number people require emergency food intervention (Amboasary Atsimo) (Madagascar)
1.4 million
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specific place Madagascar
Amboasary Atsimo
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% pop Amboasary Atsimo at crisis level
75
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Madagascar % pop chronic hunger
42
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Madagascar climate change cause evidence
4 years of drought
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Madagascar name of bandits
dahalo
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Madagascar covid had an impact on
shipping
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Madagascar locust plague impact on rice production (down %)
21
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European Tourisim number 2019
744 million
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Iceland tourism 2008
560 000
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Iceland tourism 2018
2.5 million
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Iceland tourism revenue 2018 ( 39% of export )
4 billion
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Iceland % workforce tourism
16
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Iceland disadvantages Rejavik get % overnight stays
50
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iceland sensitive site protection (building elevated footpaths + infrastructure) budget (usd)
4.5 million
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iceland imporving rekjavik's air by reducing sulfer content within 12 miles from 3.5% to
0\.1
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globla energy consumption % fossil fuels
86